How I long for the good old days of MC68000 programming, where there was no such thing as floating point :)

yes, those were the days. but by the MC68000 days there would generally be a floating point library for the user to use. now take it back to the original Apple's where there was only Integer Basic and floating point was a hardware and software upgrade... i can recall being so pissed at my dad for not getting the floating point card that had a switch on it so you could boot to Integer only if you wanted to. because the Star Trek game cassette would only work with Integer and wouldn't even load with Floating point and that was my most favorite game. sadly the precision of even the Floating point card wasn't enough for him to be able to use the computer for work, so he stuck to the HP calculator and the Apple became my plaything.

about five years later i read a FORTH book by Brodie that had all i needed to know about getting floating point from integers by apropriate scaling. i wish i had known that so i could have kept the Integer machine to play Star Trek on.