Re: New GS OS?

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: 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.

What the heck for?  It's already parsed... just do an interpreter...

If you make it into a S16 or EXE file, pretty soon people will want
extensions which will transform it into VB.

Say, this would be an opportunity to fix the THEN FLASH bug which
turns on TRACE.


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