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- From: connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: 8-bit FORTH available on GEnie
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.093418.3118@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 09:34:18 -0600
- References: <1992Aug24.231112.3106@memstvx1.memst.edu> <1992Aug26.110022.23462@cas.org>
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- Organization: Memphis State University
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- In article <1992Aug26.110022.23462@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- > Are GraForth and Applewriter ProDOS based?
-
- Applewriter is. It's version 2.1, I think. GraFORTH uses a modified
- form of DOS 3.3 (look how old it is, after all!).
-
- > Is the source code available?
-
- Supposedly yes, but from the A2PRO roundtable, not A2. I haven't
- checked, however.
-
- > If they are not ProDOS, anyone considering making them ProDOS?
-
- Apparently not. These are programs that are essentially abandoned.
- Someone at GEnie has undertaken this as a project to preserve really
- good (or at least important) Apple II software. Whether Paul Lutus
- still owned the rights to these programs and donated them, or whether
- he had to acquire them from the publishers (defunct or not) I can't
- say. Of course, with the source code to GraFORTH available, anyone
- who wants to convert to ProDOS is apparently welcome to try, but
- the whole point seems to be that there's no market for these progs.
-
- > When they are prodos, anyone considering adding GS graphics and
- > sound to GraForth?
-
- Surely you jest. But anyway, the sound already there is exceptional
- for an 8-bit program. There's a nice piano keyboard music demo that
- has 8 organ stops available, but because of some bug one of the
- advertised C#'s doesn't work.
-
- --Leo Connolly
-
-