Introducing myself

Paulo Rosa

Paulo Rosa

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Hi all,

I'm a retired software developer and I have recently acquired my B4A license.

Despite having a degree in Electronics Engineering, I started my professional career in software developing back in 1979. Needless to say that during my 35 labor years I have worked with quite a number of technologies: mainframes (Algol, Cobol, Fortran), pre-PC 8 bits personal computers (Zylog Z80 Assembler, Intel 8085 Assembler), mid-sized systems (Unix and C), and for the last decades, Windows (FoxPro, Clipper, Visual Basic 5 and 6, Excel VBA, Access VBA, etc.).

During my search of something to keep my brain active by using my tech skills, I entered the Android world. I did take some introduction courses to Java and Kotlin, but truth is didn't feel comfortable with none of those languages. Looking for other alternatives to Android programming, I found B4A and then I finally felt "at home". I simply love the idea of using the beautiful Basic language to program for Android.

Having said that, I'd like to say that I have no intention of using B4A for commercial purposes. Currently, I do have a couple of personal Android projects I intend to accomplish in the next months.

Cheers,
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Paulo Rosa
 
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Cableguy

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Bem-vindo Paulo.
No fórum temos um sub-fórum Português para o caso de precisares.

Welcome Paulo.
We have a Portuguese sub-forum just in case you need it

(Dahm t9!!)
 
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JakeBullet70

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andymc said:
Zylog Z80 assembler? Please tell me it was on an Amstrad CPC, I felt so lonely, all my friends had Spectrums and C64's!
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My Z80 assembler was on a Osborne 1.
Got to love the 5 inch screen!!!!!

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andymc

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JakeBullet70 said:
My Z80 assembler was on a Osborne 1.
Got to love the 5 inch screen!!!!!
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Osborne 1
Developer Adam Osborne
Type Portable computer
Release date April 3, 1981
Introductory price US$1,795 (equivalent to $4,832 in 2017)
Discontinued 1983

over $4000 in todays money!!!
 
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sorex

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for '81 that was a bargain.

I only worked on SX64s and those were released years later and also costed around $1000.
But it has full color 5" monitor and altho only having 25% of the Z80 speed more options (demos, games)

An ideal toy to go to scene parties as there was no need to drag around with a small tv or montior, disk drive(s) and the main machine (c64/128)
Just 1 box of 10Kg. :)
 
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