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Congratulations!! I started a ST-80 on my TRS-80 w/an external gfx board in Z-80 asm, then tried to continue on my first PC in C, swapping floppies for each C c
by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Congratulations!!
I started a ST-80 on my TRS-80 w/an external gfx board in Z-80 asm, then tried to continue on my first PC in C, swapping floppies for each C compiler pass while temp files went to a RAM drive -- between the pitiful state of the "dev environment" and the difficultly in getting the ST VM image in the correct "magic" state for startup (and my inexperience) I never finished the thing. (I should have gone more the route of "A Little Smalltalk".)
The experience makes me appreciate your work and the orig. impl. even more!
- projektfu 6y agoDid you ever see the system called “Methods” which was a TUI version of Smalltalk on the PC? I think it was by Digitalk.
- alexshendi 6y agoIt was a part of Digitalk Smalltalk/V for DOS. It can still be found at: https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-smalltalk/12-dos https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-smalltalk/12-dos It does run under FreeDOS.
- projektfu 6y agoThanks for the pointer! Very cool. As I understand it, it was the proof of concept for Smalltalk/V. Unfortunately, Smalltalk/V trashes the screen under DosBox with EGAColor, so I'll have to look into making it work better.
- alexshendi 6y agoIt doesn't play well with the current largish screen sizes. I got it to run on an eeePC 701, which has a 800x480 LCD Display.
- thelazydogsback 6y agoYes, I still have the box and original media (though it ain't pretty looking)