[Coco] Adventure game project for the Coco

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Bob

Fortran77 and Basic09 under OS9 are very similar. Much of the syntax  of 
F77 has parallels in Basic09. It maynot be terribly difficult to port an F77 
program to Basic09.

james


On 7 Jan 2008 at 11:50, Bob Devries wrote:

> Hmm, interesting...
> 
> Is there an explanation of Fortran programming available on the 'net?
> I for one haven't a clue how to write (or read) Fortran code.
> 
> I believe that Microware produced a OS-9/6809 Fortran compiler, but I
> don't know of anyone who will admit to having it.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Guin" <johnguin at hotmail.com>
> To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:40 AM Subject: [Coco] Adventure game
> project for the Coco
> 
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Over the past few weeks, some people on this alias wanted to create
> > some adventure games.  As a place to get started, would anyone want
> > to port the original "Colossal Cave" to the coco?  The Fortran code
> > is at http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/crowther/, and if you browse up
> > from there you can see all kinds of details on it.
> >
> > Anyway, porting other code is sometimes easier than creating a
> > project from scratch.
> >
> > Just a thought,
> > John Guin
> >
> >
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