[Coco] Portal-9 IDE

[Roger Taylor]

At 07:17 AM 8/26/2005, you wrote:
> >
> > On this note I'm also interested in knowing if there are any current
> > projects being developed using Portal-9 that you might want to share with
> > other writers to help them see how easy it is to build a CoCo
> > program.  Ofcourse, the included sample projects also offer quite a bit of
> > help for starters and established coders.  I would like to be part of some
> > kind of larger open source project if anybody has any ideas.  <...snip...>
> > It's been way too long since we've
> > had a new software wonder appear for the CoCo and I think it would do us
> > real good to start a community project of this sort.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
>One thing I'd like to see is what Nick M. mantioned a little while back, 
>but it
>appeared to generate little interest. We need an updated Disk Basic. Nick
>wanted to incorporate a gui, which some of you know is an interest I 
>share. I'd
>like to see a new DECB rom for the CoCo3 with the following features:
>*DECB/HDBDOS software compatible
>*supports read/write to MSDOS formatted disks (default mode)
>*compatible with original RSDOS/OS9 formated disks (compatibility mode)
>*supports (requires?) RTC for file date/time stamping
>*built-in gui interface with hi-res joystick support
>
>This is all just speculative dreaming. This is a project I think I could
>contribute a lot to, and could learn from the process of comparing my Basic
>programming methods with ML development.


Some of that is probably squeezable into the space we have.  I think all of 
it is very doable, though.  All we need is the source code to the CoCo 3 
ROMs and some will power.  Turn it into a Portal-9 project and maybe let 
others in on the work.

I wonder if SourceForge would deal with a Portal-9 project.  We'd just need 
to share the project folder, I suppose.

-- 
Roger Taylor