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- From: etxansk@garbod20.ericsson.se (Anders Skelander)
- Subject: Re: Comal stuff
- Message-ID: <etxansk.713626862@garbod20>
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- Organization: Ericsson
- References: <1992Aug11.003547.14644@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:41:02 GMT
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- lenin@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Alejandro Perez-Pulido) writes:
-
-
- >I have heard about comal, what is it? is it an operating enviroment or a
- >programing lenguage or what? doeas anybody has a book about it that would
- >like to sell me?
- >thanks.
-
- I used Comal on a Commodore 64 at school back in 1986. It's a programming
- language similar to Pascal, but it interprets the code (no need to
- compile the source.) The C64 Comal was developed in Denmark, and it was
- delivered to my school on 16K or 32K cartridges using some bank-
- switching technique. (At least it wasn't easy to copy it to a disk).
-
- With an add-on package for sprites and pixel graphics in it, it became
- a very useful development environment on the C64, much better than the
- built-in BASIC and the simple improvements over BASIC that were available
- at the time.
-
- I'm sure there are some die-hard C64/128 users in Scandinavia still owning
- the cartridge or a disk version.
-
- Anders Skelander, Sweden
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