Then @a2_qkumba and I wrote a new pager program that can very quickly display arbitrarily large text files. (Think Dogpaw, but 1/2 the size and 1/10 the features and without requiring BASIC.SYSTEM and ampersand commands.) Then I converted the Copy II Plus 8.4 manual to ASCII text, updated it for Copy II Reboot, and included it on the disk.
It's called FLOW and it looks like this:
With the self-decompressing modules making the Copy II Reboot binary 20% smaller than version 8.4, everything fits nicely on a single 5.25-inch floppy disk.
You can download immediately from https://github.com/a2-4am/cii/releases/tag/v1.0
Jun 27, 2026, 12:45 AM@a2_4am Great thread thanks. Main takeaway is that I need to schedule a colonoscopy :)
@a2_4am I love reading your stories, besides all the work that they cover. I’m glad that we all benefit from your posting your presentation here as a story, though I’m sorry that you missed out on the occasion to deliver it in person to an audience.
“Thank you all, you beautiful humans” is such a wonderfully *you* way to wrap it all up. Thank you for what you do, and for sharing it with the rest of us.
@a2_4am @a2_qkumba ahaha, i also made a pager program, for my assembler manual. but it's written in 9 lines of basic, so it is not very fast. :V
one of these days i might make it so the "previous page" function actually goes back instead of silently starting over from the beginning.
@pesco @a2_qkumba Aye, the backward scroll is the fun part