On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:30:52 GMT, wrote:
> On 9 Apr., 22:28, "Auric__" <not.my.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:21:53 GMT, wrote:
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > I just released a new version of the bas7 basic interpreter,
>> > which can execute old basic programs from the line number era
>> > (If you know GW-Basic: That was the era). The interpreter is
>> > released under the GPL. A description of bas7 can be found here:
>>
>> >http://seed7.sourceforge.net/scrshots/bas7.htm
>>
>> > The new version of Bas7 is contained in new the release of
>> > Seed7 seed7_05_20080406.tgz, which can be downloaded at:
>>
>> >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151126
>>
>> > Changelog of the 20080406 version of bas7:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> > It would be nice to get some feedback about it.
>>
>> Downloading now. I'll try it out tonight or tomorrow and get back
>> to you, especially as compared to my initial testing. My only
>> comments right now are mutterings about people who continue to use
>> gzip when there are much more efficient compressors available. ;-)
>
> Sure, there are always more efficient compressors available.
> Since I try to sup****t various operating systems, I have to
> choose the least common denominator as compressor.
> Since all the fancy windows compression programs are not
> available under unix I cannot use them.
There's always bzip2. Most of the time it offers better compression
than gzip. (For seed7 it's usually about 1/4 to 1/3 smaller; for
everything else it depends on the filetype. I usually use a script I
wrote that compresses your selected file with everything available,
one at a time.)
> For windows compression/decompression I suggest 7-Zip (no
> relation****p to Seed7) which is open source software and is
> available at: www.7-zip.org
....which is one of the tools that I use. For *nix systems there's also
p7zip, the *nix ****t of 7zip:
http://p7zip.sf.net/
Of course, since that's probably not included with most distros, you'd
have people *****ing about it anyway.
> I'm looking forward to seeing your feedback.
Well... I wrote down a nice big list, then forgot to copy it to my USB
stick. [sigh] This is all from memory.
MY SYSTEM:
Slackware 10.1, Kernel 2.4.36, GCC 3.4.5, Pentium III w/ 384MB RAM
INSTALLING:
As before, I had to edit the makefile to find my libX11. I again
recommend either mentioning this in the README, or finding someone who
knows how to write a configure script. (I'm using a very standard
Slackware install; this *will* be a problem for people besides me.)
The compile had no errors, but lots of warnings -- maybe double the
last time. The previous warnings were all complaints about type
casting; they're still there but this one added "'variablename' is
declared but not used" and "'variablename' may be used uninitialized".
[shrug]
RUNNING:
I did very little testing outside of bas7. I ran castle.sd7 again --
found about a dozen treasures this time [yay me] -- and eliza.sd7.
Both are fine. (Thanks again for the "-p" switch in bas7, btw.)
The BASIC programs all run a bit slow. (I can't recall if this was
happening in the previous version; I was mostly looking to see if they
worked at all.) I chalk it up to the fact that the interpreter is
itself interpreted, but you may want to check for yourself.
Most notable is eliza.bas (from the early-to-mid 80's; the reason I
also ran eliza.sd7, for comparison) which runs just fine under several
DOS BASICs, but has a noticeable pause after each line of input. I
didn't check the logs, but my guess is that the slowdown is caused by
the logging. Eliza parses the text in a very... well... let's call it
overly-complex manner, and each line of the parsing, string
manipulating, and reply choosing probably generates its own log
output. A very slow way to talk to yourself.
Also, text-mode colors still aren't there. (I realize they're probably
pretty low on the todo list.) *This* is what I meant last time by "no
colors". (I ran a BASIC program that "tests" VGA colors.)
I haven't tried any actual graphical programs, but then, I don't think
that I have any with line numbers...
Uh... I think that's it. [/me stretches brain] I think. I need more
caffeine, as usual. TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE! AWAY!
--
Calm down. It's only ones and zeros.
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