Re: New GS OS?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <53kbv3$nri@seeker.the-hermes.net>,
Geoff Weiss <geoff@the-hermes.net> wrote:
>>As long as we're talking about GS/OS enhancements, how about an upgrade to
>>BASIC.SYSTEM...BASIC.SYS16.  I can live with Applesoft programs being
>>limited to the same memory constraints as on a 48k machine even on my 5Mb
>>GS, and I really don't need a SHR graphics interface...I can live with the
>>standard complement of Applesoft outputs.  But it would sure be nice to

>If this would be written to 100% Applesoft compatible, you would have
>a program that requires 1 meg of memory just to run a 35k 
>Applesoft BASIC program.  Just thinking about the irony...

   It's been a pet project of mine for a long while now to do some
sort of Applesoft minicompiler. [No real opts, and it'd just turn the
code into asm source which could then be fed to Orca/M (possibly also
requiring Orca/C libraries, but I think that may no longer be
necessary) and produce a EXE/S16 out of it.] Of course, with all the
other things I've been doing, this program hasn't gotten very far at
all.

   No promises if/when this'll ever become halfway useable; I've got
enough GS projects I'd like to do that'd keep me busy for the next
year, even if I worked fulltime on them]

   A Basic runtime interpreter might be simpler in a whole bunch of
ways (it's already parsed), but I'm interested in making things run
nicer.

Nathan Mates

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