[Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

[Lothan]

Mono is binary compatible with the .NET Framework and runs on Windows, Mac, 
and Linux platforms. I won't say it runs everything that runs on the .NET 
Framework, but it runs all the projects I've thrown at it. MonoDevelop is a 
nice IDE for Mono. I do all my development in C# with Visual Studio 
2008/2010 and then copy the source and binaries over to Ubuntu and verify it 
with MonoDevelop.

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

Of course, you'd probably have to make some changes to account for the 
differences between MESS and XMESS.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Taylor
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:22 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

At 01:03 PM 9/16/2010, you wrote:

>Roger, I applaud your efforts and service to the CoCo community. I'm not a 
>programmer
>so have no right to gripe, so take this little rant with a grain of salt!
>
>I really hate all this stuff that uses Microsoft proprietary components 
>like the
>.NET frame work and Visual Studio. The sole purpose it to make Windows a 
>requirement.
>That's just playing dirty in this day and age, especially since Windows is 
>the
>dominant OS anyway... they plan on forcing it to remain so.

Using .NET and Windows wasn't my idea so you would have to buy
Windows.  I wish that someone could clone or emulate the .NET system
on other platforms and we'd be done with it.  My Portal-9 and Rainbow
IDE will run under Wine in Linux which means someone went great
lengths to emulate the Windows API.

One thing I've noticed is that Visual Basic .NET (not to be confused
with some sort of BASIC interpreter) and Java are similar.  Both are
object oriented and can be translated to each other "easily".   This
might mean that eventually someone could take my Pheonix IDE source
code in VB.NET and come up with a Java version.  The sad thing about
VB.NET is that the name implies that it's some sort of BASIC compiler
that produces slow interpreted code which perhaps scares off a lot of
serious coders.  I'm getting optimized code and it runs faster than
the Rainbow IDE which is written in 100% assembly.  This is one of
the best programming languages I've dealth with and couldn't be more
pleased with the power.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034904.html

http://www.beelucid.com/

-- 
~ Roger Taylor