Re: GSoft BASIC Ramble

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On May 11, 11:55 pm, Mike Westerfield <Mike...@aol.com> wrote:
> Eric's Shepherd sent an e-mail that caused me to bounce into this
> group again. It seemed like quite a coincidence, since BASIC has once
> again inserted itself into my life. I thought I'd share some history
> and check on interest levels.
>
> I wrote GSoft BASIC when the Apple IIGS was obviously on the way out.
> It was partly a labor of love: I had always wanted to complete a set
> of languages for the Apple IIGS that included an assembler, Pascal
> compiler, C compiler, and BASIC compiler. Even though GSoft was an
> interpreter, it sort of closed the set for me. It was also interesting
> to try to fit an interpreter into the ORCA environment.

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Hi Mike!

I'm recently purchased the Opus ][ collection and as we seldom see you
here any more, I just wanted to say "thanks!" for writing these
compilers, etc. It will give me many hours of tinkering on my IIgs,
and hopefully once in a while I'll come up with something good that
others can make use of.

Nice to see you back. Can we expect to see more of you around here, or
is this a one-off brief visit?  :-)

Cheers,
Mike

ps. Although I haven't released anything written in Orca yet, you can
view all of my projects (including some Complete Pascal programming)
at http://apple2.sytes.net/