Long time no news

[Pierre Bellisle]

Hey Charles,

Long time no news!
Is everything fine on your side of the web?

[Theo Gottwald]

@Charles Pegge I hope you are fine!

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Pierre and Theo,

I am well but not spending much time on OxygenBasic. Though I'm quite interested in supporting UTF-8 encoded Unicode. It avoids some of the problems associated with UTF-16, such as surrogate-pairs, and may eventually displace it.

I have been following  the discussions on the PB and PUMP forums but I don't think there is a large enough community to sustain the development of a new PowerBasic. What do you think?

I'm spending most of my time on building projects, and generally engaging in as much physical activity as I can to recondition my 70 year old muscles

[Pierre Bellisle]

Hi Charles,

About sustaining development for a new PowerBasic,
I was hoping for a lot to join your team,
true that we are all getting old, and many of us are reluctant to change.
Life is life...

At a time, I was thinking of building a kind of DDT engine and
emulate most, if not all of PB functions.

PB had a real good error detection while compiling,
this is the only thing I could really miss,
I sometime think that O2 could have more adepts with a little shine on that side.

I still believe that you got the best compiler.
I'ts a pure beauty.


Glad to know you are fine Charles.

Take care...

( Take care you to Theo)

[Zlatko Vid]

I still believe that you got the best compiler.
I'ts a pure beauty.

I agree...
And i don't want to change it with any new 32/64 bit compiler
I am user of Oxygen Basic more than 10 years.

all best

[Theo Gottwald]

Hello @Charles Pegge,

Yes, that is absolutely true. I also appreciate your development work a lot, even though I am not able to use it at the moment. I follow it with interest, so it would be unfortunate if you decided to abandon it.

I understand both your family circumstances and your health situation; please feel free to ask me for advice on either matter whenever you need. As always, I wish you the very best.

Additionally, I am aware that England is facing significant challenges at present, and I would not recommend going there. The situation appears even more difficult than in Germany, which is also experiencing a downturn, as you can see.

[Theo Gottwald]

I have seen @Charles Pegge today, he was logged on to the forum, but it seems he didn't write anything.




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[Charles Pegge]

Hi Theo,

I am still here, lurking in he background. I won't abandon Oxygen, but time is limited, and AI poses a significant challenge to our traditonal techniques of software development. At least I will continue to be a user of OxygenBasic foe my projects but I need more physical activity and less time computing, to maintain good health.

As for UK politics, we have a very inept government, a serious housing shortage causing property to become unaffordable, and a mad net-zero policy that makes our electricity the most expensive in the world. It's not sustainable.

PS:
PBusers.org is now up and running. The registration issues have now been resolved:
https://pbusers.org/forum/index.php.

Nobody expects PowerBasic to come back on-line even though the domain has been renewed for another year.

[Zlatko Vid]

At least I will continue to be a user of OxygenBasic foe my projects

me too
at least i try to make thing called Deep Basic using Deep AI and translate it to OyxgenBasic
in first for fun.. 

[Zlatko Vid]

oh boy
on that forum Charles gives a link is a
dude called Alverez and his PluriBasic ..translator i guess
such a mess , so why bothering with Pluri when we can use PB or OB or even Java
OMG