[Coco] Does anyone still have the mocha code and could it be ported to Android?

Roy Lores cyberpunk at prtc.net
Tue Jan 20 14:42:14 EST 2015


On 1/15/2015 6:45 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> VCC is in Visual C++ 6.0 (Win98 era) with a lot of DirectX 8 & 9.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Charbonneau <timebandit001 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 5:38 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone still have the mocha code and could it be ported to Android?
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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 15, 2015 5:04 PM, "Marc Charbonneau" <timebandit001 at gmail.com>
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>>>> So, in the end, again, I'll stick with Vcc 1.4.3b until something
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>>>> comes along.
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>>> Whatever happened to the possibility of Vcc going open-source ?
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>>> Would be nice to have it cross-platform
>> Last I heard, the author was OK with the idea but did not wish to release
>> the source in its current form.  Unfortunately I think this is another case
>> of the author losing interest or just becoming too busy with other things.
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>> Having seen the source, I can add that Vcc is rather intimately tied to the
>> Windows platform.  It would take quite a rewrite to make it cross platform.
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>> In what language is it ?
> VCC is written in such a totally differnetlanguage and sysyem that a port to Android is virtually out of the question Mocha was the only hope for a workable port to Android within our lifetimes anyway.



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