[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
>