Re:Orca Basic

[bill malcolm <wm65805@alltel.net>]

Orca sold a Integer Basic also.



Yves McDonald wrote:

> Marsha wrote:
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> > [posted and mailed]
> >
> > Yves McDonald <""yves.mcdonald\"@NO SPAM sympatico.ca> wrote in
> > news:5PZu9.591$qD2.147102@news20.bellglobal.com:
> >
> >
> >>My AE Vulcan HD has a 25MB partition for GS/OS 6 and a GS/OS 5.04
> >>partition I have created for ORCA.
> >>
> >
> > Have you tried installing ORCA onto the GS/OS 6 partition?
> > Does pressing Apple-period to see if it will end the hang?
> You bet!  Seeing it hang made me think of setting a OS 5.04 partition for ORCA.
>
> I just tried again: it works :)  I've been able to compile and run sample
>
> programs.
>
> A file was missing in my system folder.  I'll try
>
> again with GS/OS 6.
>
> >
> >>It's a shame the 2GS had no built-in programming language like its
> >>ancestors.
> >>
> >
> > Actually, it has Applesoft as did the II+ , //e and //c
> > Apple also put the mini-assembler back into the IIgs
> Um, yes indeed there's good old Applesoft but I meant a language which could
>
> exploit the Toolbox in ROM, the synthetiser, the enhanced graphics, more
>   RAM, etc.  Ahhh the mini-assembler... one step above punching in hex
> codes with the monitor then BSAVE (I vaguely remember the parameters:
> <filename> <start_addr> <size> I think)... then came Apple Assembler
> then... I stopped coding in 6502 in favor of the 80386 the day the Apple
> //e died.
> Now the fun is back with my GS.
>
> Thanks for the apple-period key tip.
>
> Yves
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