Subject: Re: GSoft
From: mikew50@aol.com (MikeW50)
Date: Mon, Dec 28, 1998 03k5%3ˆ
Message-id: <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