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Cloning BASIC.SYSTEM and porting INTBASIC to ProDOS



I've just had a couple thoughts.

1. I've seen PDOS.SYSTEM and AmperDOS, two BASIC.SYSTEM replacements that use &-commands to do all their work. I wonder if it would be very difficult to hack PDOS.SYSTEM into being compatible with BASIC.SYSTEM, just so as to have a version of BASIC.SYSTEM that isn't Apple-copyrighted. I'm thinking about rewriting ProDOS itself too but that is of lower priority (since I'm actually working on adding a ProDOS API emulation to SDDapple, under the name VDOS).

2. I mentioned several months ago that I wanted to run INTBASIC programs on ProDOS, and it seems that it would take a disassembly and reassembly of Integer BASIC in order to do this. I have a version of Integer BASIC that will load on DOS 3.x in only 48K RAM but it doesn't work right in ProDOS, if possible maybe this could be hacked, and made to work correctly. Maybe even with ideas and code from that BASIC.SYSTEM clone idea I mentioned above, so that it can be a .SYSTEM file and run on its own.

Just some musing... stuff I don't do well, but that I do often...

-uso.