Re: Please help me build an Apple IIGS for my son

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

Currently my son is already on TML Pascal II - since it has a
"Graphics Textbook Application" mode that allows direct programming to
full screen graphics, as simple as GR and HGR in Applesoft Basic
(that's his first language, he just learned it in one week - before
that he does not know programming).

I only recently heard of GSoft Basic, and have been trying hard to
locate the freeware version (that's the version with some restriction)
for evaluation, but can't find it. Since I don't have a real GS, I
need the software in disk image format to use (so this mean I can't
buy the software even if I want to). I have Orca/C, Orca/M and Orca/
Pascal II in 3.5" disks than I am not able to use right now..

On 8 15 ,   3 38 , Michael Kent <mich...@syndicomm.remove.this.com>
wrote:

> I'm afraid I can't help you with the emulators -- I still run on true
> Apple II hardware, but one thing you might have missed if you've been
> out of the loop for ten years is GSoft BASIC.  It was written by Mike
> Westerfield of ByteWorks fame and is currently for sale at Syndicomm.
> GSoft BASIC is an Apple IIGS basic that supports the advanced features
> of the GS and allows for toolbox programming.
>
> Toolbox programming might be a little much for an 8-year-old, but it
> accpts Applesoft-style BASIC programs just fine, and he can grow into
> the advanced features as he learns.
>
> I don't know if it's right for you, but I do know that if *I* were eight,
> that's the language I would want to program in.  ;-)
>
> Good luck,
> Mike