At 08:10 PM 7/26/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote: >On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > > > Seeing that there is so little "respect" for the old tools that made > > out DOS, I am not sure if I should pick up one of my projects I had > > started a few years back, a GW-BASIC clone, looks like there won't be > > much interest for this at least in here. Or even bother to put the > > finishing touches on BACKUP&RESTORE for that matter... :-( > >I for one would particularly be interested in a gwbasic clone that >actually works like gwbasic.
That was my basic idea, but beside that I got interrupted at some point by health and other personal issues, I got a bit stuck at implementing routines for the floating point math in MBF (which is what BASICA/GW-BASIC and the early MS BASIC compiler use). I have some old routines for most of the single precision stuff but doing double precision with only 16bit registers at hand is a bit tough. And without MBF (Microsoft Binary Format), it can't work like GWBASIC. Otherwise, so far it will read and (de)tokenize any BASICA/GWBASIC program that I had thrown at it, it will do LIST and LLIST and I have most of the known memory map as well as PEEK and POKE working... Will see how I get time, as I am now self-employed for the last couple of month trying to start my own business, and see that I continue on this after I got BACKUP&RESTORE out... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
