Old programs you wrote years ago...

[JakeBullet70]

Hi all.

Here is a good one. What are some of the older programs you have written in the past? What have you done?

I thought about this as my son had recently sent me screen shots of a C64 program I wrote years ago. In fact about 27 years ago. It was a support program for the 1581 disk drive. Pics included.

Also too. What language did you use?

 

[JakeBullet70]

Scheduling program in CA-Clipper 5.2 - Around 1996, Yes it is DOS with full mouse support.

 

[eurojam]

this is from 2003, a multiuser billing and accounting programm, around 75.000 lines of (redundant) code, but still in use and 100% VB6 and access2000

 

[HotShoe]

SCREAM BBS system (DOS). killed by internet

VCRS - video rental and control system (used by 7-11 stores). contract/sold

PoliTrack - Law enforcement tracking software (Used in north america and by interpol), sold

CompuCare - Medical practice management. sold (now medicalis)

CompuTool - Machine/fabrication shop software. contract, sold by joint agreement

Laundry Hamper - uniform rental and commercial laundry control (automation control) sold

GEM - Printer drivers and interface for the GEM operating system. (Digital Research) now defunct

All of those were in the 80's when I knew what I was doing. hehe

--- Jem

 

[sorex]

@JakeBullet70 : to follow your 8 bit trend... I wrote the last Internal magazine outfit that was used a few times.

You could pre-write everything in Word with a special font and template and it appeared exactly the same on the C64.
The C64 editor was then used for fine tuning which worked html like style (start and end 'tags') and supported
condensed/proportianal font, italic, underline, bold, font/background color, hires gfx, "hyperlinks" for text & gfx while still displaying extremely fast.
You could even start reading pages while the file was still loading which was unique back then and meant no delays at all even on very large chapters.

Chapters where packed with a special dictionary based multipass packer written in assembler on pc which took seconds on my 386-DX40 instead of 6+ hours on the c64
Maybe that one was for the previous outfit, can't remember exactly.

below some screenshots showing how it looks/looked (the "rabbit in the hat" was the pointer that changed during loading)

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=5337

I also wrote commieVju & commieMix which were c64 image viewer on pc that were ultra small and ultra fast (assembler) and supported way more than the others back then.

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=38306&show=notes#notes

and a lot of other internal tools either c64 or pc based.

 

[rwblinn]

To share: Wrote a CMS (kind) of application (KALHelp) in 1997 with a German Development Tool called Visual Data Publisher [BTW: includes a macro language called EASY = a mix of Basic & Pascal = funny language ]. It is still being used in the field - do get requests for changes now and then. I use it to maintain my homepage.

 

[MikeH]

I wrote a rip off of Windows Electronic Workbench for Amiga...

http://obligement.free.fr/articles/schematicad18.php

 

[Cableguy]

Dahm.... I only recreated and personalized my spectrum ++ starting menu...
You guys just made me feel so small!!!

 

[JakeBullet70]

@JakeBullet70 : to follow your 8 bit trend... I wrote the last Internal magazine outfit that was used a few times.

You could pre-write everything in Word with a special font and template and it appeared exactly the same on the C64.
The C64 editor was then used for fine tuning which worked html like style (start and end 'tags') and supported
condensed/proportianal font, italic, underline, bold, font/background color, hires gfx, "hyperlinks" for text & gfx while still displaying extremely fast.
You could even start reading pages while the file was still loading which was unique back then and meant no delays at all even on very large chapters.

Chapters where packed with a special dictionary based multipass packer written in assembler on pc which took seconds on my 386-DX40 instead of 6+ hours on the c64
Maybe that one was for the previous outfit, can't remember exactly.

below some screenshots showing how it looks/looked (the "rabbit in the hat" was the pointer that changed during loading)

So cool!!!! Love it!!!! I miss the 8 bit world.

 

[JakeBullet70]

I wrote a rip off of Windows Electronic Workbench for Amiga...

What language?

 

[JakeBullet70]

SCREAM BBS system (DOS). killed by internet

VCRS - video rental and control system (used by 7-11 stores). contract/sold

PoliTrack - Law enforcement tracking software (Used in north america and by interpol), sold

CompuCare - Medical practice management. sold (now medicalis)

CompuTool - Machine/fabrication shop software. contract, sold by joint agreement

Laundry Hamper - uniform rental and commercial laundry control (automation control) sold

GEM - Printer drivers and interface for the GEM operating system. (Digital Research) now defunct

All of those were in the 80's when I knew what I was doing. hehe

--- Jem

Interesting, , what languages did you use?

 

[JakeBullet70]

This is from 2003, a multiuser billing and accounting programm, around 75.000 lines of (redundant) code, but still in use and 100% VB6 and access2000

Go to love VB6. It was an is sill is a workhorse?

 

[MikeH]

What language?

I'm pretty sure I used CanDo v3.0 for that. It was very B4X-like and rumour has it was the inspiration for MS VBasic.

http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=37794&type=software

 

[KMatle]

Atari 400 (Basic, Assembler)
C64
Amiga -> GFA-Basic
VB6
VB .Net

 

[JakeBullet70]

Amiga -> GFA-Basic

Love GFA basic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HotShoe]

Interesting, , what languages did you use?

The BBS and the laundry stuff were in turbo pascal and ASM, the rest were C and ASM.

 

[eurojam]

It was an is sill is a workhorse?

absolutly, the only thning is, that the DLLs everywhere - the DLL HELL - around vb6 and older windows versions, which makes it difficult to maintain the programm on newer windows (7,8,10).
IMO B4J has a similar potential, to be a workhorse, even on more plattforms

 

[LucaMs]

Love GFA basic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have loved Cobol (but I'm not normal )

 

[KMatle]

Cobol

At work we still use a lot of COBOL

 

[klaus]

Most of the programs I had written were calculation programs for mechanical engineering.
I wrote these programs manly in my spare time.
Some of them:
- Reaction forces and deformations in beams according to the loads, with graphic display of the results.
- Pressure between a roller and a cam.
- Lengths of belts with multiple pulleys with graphic display of the pulley geometry, positions and diamters etc.
- Data aquisition and stress calculations for strain gages.
- And a huge one, data aquisition, graphic data analysis and dynamic simulations which allowed to calculate simulations and then measure the real behavior on a machine and compaire the results with the graphic analysis. The DynSim program is a small version of the huge one.
- And another one for absence management, the first project was for a dozen people and the final version, after some years, managed about 600 people. The same program was completed for apparatus reservation and conference rooms rservation management.

Some of these programs were writen over years with older languages and ported to newer ones and also for different machines:
HP Basic for an HP 9836
GW Basic for DOS
Quick Basic for DOS
GFA Basic for Windows, I used GFA Basic for Atari on my personal Atari computer and then for Windows.
VB1, VB3, VB4, VB5 and VB6.