On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, TK Chia wrote:
Yes. At the same time, I hear that Michal Necasek (www.os2museum.com)
has been working on a separate reconstruction --- involving proprietary
code bits --- but has not published his results yet.
I believe there are at least two separate possible sub-projects here:
(1) to only restore the original GW-BASIC functionality;
(2) to also add features found in later versions of GW-BASIC --- support
for subdirectories, EGA/VGA screen modes, etc. etc. etc. --- and
possibly to extend it even further (maybe even have it run natively on
Linux?).
Thank you!
It is good that the behavior of GW-BASIC, or more precisely BASICA (the
IBM-specific version requiring ROM support), is well-documented; makes
reimplementation easier.
-uso.
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