Re: GSoft

["Sir Cain" <rcain3@mindspring.com>]

I kinda' like GSoft BASIC Mac,  GSoft BASIC '98 (for WIntel), and maybe even
GSoft BASIC Unix, it has a ring of Legacy for the computer that "really"
started it all.  :)

MikeW50 wrote in message <19981228170546.00272.00004152@ng-ft1.aol.com>...
>>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.
>
>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. :)
>
>Mike Westerfield