[Coco] The Graphical Segmentation System.

[Mark McDougall]

On 1/09/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> Planned: To check and convert from MicroSoft "C" to the
> TANDY COLOR COMPUTER 3 (CoCo3) with OS-9 Level II
> and 512K ram. (Never Done)

I've had a quick look at the source you linked, and IMHO I don't think 
you've got much of a chance at all of running this on a Coco. And even if 
you did, I'm really not sure what you'd do with it!?!

There's about 140KB of source there. It was meant to run on a machine that 
could address at least 640KB, without bank-switching. There's native x86 
assembler you'll need to replace. It uses dynamic memory allocation and IIUC 
a virtual memory scheme that swaps graphical objects to/from disk on-the-fly.

It looks to me to be a system used for windowing and manipulating large 
numbers of diverse graphical objects - certainly not suitable for any type 
of gaming I can think of.

Happy to be proven wrong, but I wouldn't even attempt it myself. :(

Regards,

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