[Coco] Success! FOCAL lives again!

[Joel Ewy]

On 12/18/2010 02:23 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:

> I have the FOCAL interpeter from retroarchive.catb.org running under

> OS-9!

>

>    


Wow!  This will come in really handy when um...  uh.  Well, it's cool, 
anyhow!  :)

I notice ESR has a Hunt the Wumpus game ported from BASIC to C on that 
page.  Maybe you could port that to FOCAL!

JCE


> This is the second time I've tried to port this code.  The first got

> lost in a hard drive crash, but I was having a lot of trouble with it.

>

> But this time around, I had ansifront!  Among other things, ansifront

> hashes all the struct and union element names so the compiler doesn't

> get confused.

>

> Right now, the interpeter has 3 issues:

> The ^C interupt handler doesn't work.

> Needs a real floor() function

> The directory command isn't implemented for OS-9.

>

> So, while I'm still hitting myself on the head with a bottle of booze,

> at least I'm doing so successfully! ;-)

>

> Willard

>