Re: Apple II Emulation in HyperCard

["Jonathyn Bet'nct" <jonrelay@napanet.net>]

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
20010922213054.14524.00000394@mb-fk.aol.com">news:20010922213054.14524.00000394@mb-fk.aol.com...
> "Jonathyn Bet'nct" <jonrelay@napanet.net> wrote:
>
> >No, that's not the valid code I was talking about! This is:
> >
> >if addr=49249 then
> >  -- hollow apple key
> >  put 0 into res
> >  if the commandkey is down then add 128 to res
> >  add random(127) to res
> >  return res
> >end if
>
> Oh my God, that's HyperTalk.  If it is mostly HyperTalk, this thing
> (if you do somehow finish it) will probably work in HyperCard IIGS,
> the IIGS version of HyperCard.  Or at least parts of it.

Yes, it is HyperTalk; and the idea that it might be able to run in HC IIgs
has crossed my mind once.

> But...this thing is going to be slow.  When I first read the title,
> I thought you were doing most of the emulation in XCMDs or
> external functions.

If it's slow enough, I'll compile it into a bunch of XCMDs and XFCNs. The
routines most desperately calling for compilation are the video routines.




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