In CCS64 (Commodore 64 emulator software), I have been using a small Compute’s Gazette program you wrote from the February 1990 edition simply called “Disk Editor” to edit “.d64″ files from disks I used when I was a kid. Thanks to your software, I’ve converted some old schoolwork sequential files and other misc “.prg” files from floppies that I’m amazed still function and work!

Thanks again – many years later of course – for writing such a wonderful tool to use. It has made salvaging my old C64 disks possible.

Side Note: I had started with an editor from the February 1986 Compute’s Gazette but ran into issues when trying to modify the last byte of certain sectors – the program would lock up, even running on my real C64 computer.

Your program has no such issues – it’s performed flawlessly.

Thanks again for the excellent program. It’s still used and appreciated many years later.

Loren

Thanks for looking at Gosu!

Yes, so our documentation is a bit lacking. We are currently all hands on deck getting the intellij plugin working, since a statically typed language without a good IDE is a very poor user experience. Documentation is on the list, but realistically it probably won’t be great until the middle of next year.

Also, another thing hindering doing Gosu development is the lack of a web framework, etc. We are working on a Rails-like (but w/ static typing) framework called Ronin (http://ronin-web.org) and, again, I’d expect that to be in a decent spot by the middle of next year.

And I should qualify all of this by saying this is with respect to *open source* Gosu. Guidewire’s internal tools for Gosu development are quite mature and are an entirely different story (as evidenced by the big boys deployed with it.)

I’m happy to argue about variance or talk Gosu whenever you like. And thanks again for looking at Gosu!

Cheers,
Carson

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