Re: GSoft

[Will Smith <wsmith@ctron.com>]

thanks for the quick reply, Mike!  :)

On 28 Dec 1998, MikeW50 wrote:

> >did i understand correctly that you plan to port your BASIC flavor to
> >other operating systems, or was i dreaming when i thought i read it?
> 
> I did say we were planning some ports. Nothing is far enough along to announce
> or anything, but it's something I would eventually like to see done.

oh, goodie!  i wasn't imagining things!  (this is a GOOD thing...  <g>)

> It might surprise a lot of people to know that I have some experience with
> this. The Logo interpreter I wrote has been ported to four platforms and five
> versions. On the Apple IIGS it's available as 3D Logo and as an add-on to
> HyperStudio; it's the default scripting language in HyperStudio Mac and
> HyperStudio Windows, and another team successfully ported HyperLogo to the
> Acorn, porting HyperLogo in the process. The things I learned with that process
> will help a lot if I get to port GSoft BASIC to other platforms.
> 
> Of course the name will change. GSoft BASIC has a nice ring on the Apple IIGS,
> but it looses something on another O/S. :)

i can deal with a name change...  any idea if Linux might be one of the
target platforms?

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