-=> Quoting Gene Buckle to Scott Adams <=-

 >      I ought to sit down one day and release those utils I've done for TG
 >      for the last 20 years or so.  Last count i did about 82 of them.
 >      But i think I only officially released to the public about 10.
 >      Most went to friends and personal use.  Maybe one day...another
 >      project on my list of 30 or so projects :)
 >
 GB> The original author of TTT and TOT told the FP maintainers that it was
 GB> ok for people to port his toolkits and send them out for use with FP.  

 GB> Were the tools you wrote for dealing with the TG datafiles?

     Some.  But some like SC was just so simple I wrote a program
     without tools or toolkit.  Like I say about a decade ago
     I rewrote the TTT toolkit so much only about 5% of it is
     the original.  Especially graphics for it when it was
     only for Text mode :)
 
 >  GB> The rate limiter is part of the output routine.  It just sticks the
 >  GB> appropriate delay in before printing each character.  I came up with
 >  GB> the technique for it when I was working on a .Net version of an Apple
 >  GB> ][ BBS called Pirates of Puget Sound.  That will eventually see the
 >  GB> light of day as well. :)
 > 
 >      Sounds interesting and makes sense.  But that could mess up
 >      with some ansis and games wouldn't it? Back in college we
 >      wrote a term program (basic bbs that did msgs, files/downloads/
 >      uploads and chat).  Was easy using the Async stuff back in
 >      the days as it was the only thing to use (back in 14.4 days).
 >      One of the advanced ideas was a concept like yours doing
 >      a rate thing to downgrade it to 300.  I seem to recall i
 >      did something like that but had trouble with fast typing in
 >      chat if i recall?  It has been 15 or so years.
 > 

 GB> It actually wouldn't cause any problems at all.  The limiter is only
 GB> part of the bbs and doesn't impact any external functions.  If I can
 GB> get moving this weekend, I'll try to get it back online so you can see
 GB> what I mean. 

     I believe ya.  Sounds interesting.  I guess then it wouldn't
     matter for those modem accerlators or those AOL accerlators or
     such stuff then.  Interesting.


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