Re: Integer BASIC & the IIgs?

[mikew50@aol.com (MikeW50)]

In article
<Pine.A41.3.95.970627114255.57044A-100000@fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>,
 <cshank@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:

>Good question. I have often wonder why Prodos reserves a filetype for
>Integer BASIC when it (allegedly) doesn't support it. Is there a
>Prodos-based Integer BASIC compiler or interpreter?

It's been a long time since I had any desire to do anything in Integer
BASIC, so my memory could be a bit faulty here, but I seem to recall that
you _could_ run Integer BASIC programs under ProDOS. It required a
software patch, more or less like the software version of Integer BASIC
that ran under DOS once Apple switched from the Apple ][ to the Apple ][+,
and Integer BASIC was no longer in ROM.

Integer BASIC itself had no ties to the disk operating system, so such a
piece of software would be rather easy to create. It would also be easy to
create under GS/OS, for that matter.

If anyone seriously cares, I could look through my old disks and see if I
can find Integer BASIC for ProDOS. If it's just a curiosity, though, I
don't see any reason to spend time on it.

Mike Westerfield