Re: Euphoria and BeOs!
Don't forget the Amiga, where there's no such thing as a "wait-state"
cursor... hehehe
--ck
Should a "multi-tasking" computer even HAVE a wait-state cursor?
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Euphoria and BeOs!
>At 01:28 PM 22-03-1999 , you wrote:
>>Daniel Berstein wrote:
>>
>>> Go get Be... it will change your life :)
>>> ...
>>> I heard SciTech is releasing soon a BeOs release,
>>> that means universal video support.
>>
>>I ran across a $30 book on programming the BeOS, and I was tempted to buy
it
>>- it included a version of the OS. I assume that it was time limited or
>>something. But I'm busy enough at the moment with Linux and other
projects.
>
>The demo version is the same as the retail, but can't be installed on your
>hdd, it boots directly from your CD. I don't know wich version you almost
>evaluated, but in case you are tempted again be sure to get the latest
>version (currently 4.0, AKA R4).
>
>>I don't know what kind of bindings (DLL, etc) Be supports. I'm assuming
that
>
>Shared libraries... just like Linux. Elf is the executable format. The
>development is based on GNU EGCS tools. Unfortunalty it seems that for
>native GUI apps (not shell) you'll need to mess with C++, the OS is
>completly OO. That's great for an OS, performance, etc, but not for me... I
>hate (don't understand, yet) C++ ;)
>
>>Rob's Linux port of Euphoria helped shake off some of the DOS/Win32
>>dependancies built into Euphoria. I'm hoping that Robert ends up with a
more
>>portable version of Euphoria as a result.
>
>That would be nice.
>
>>It would be nice to see Euphoria running on Be. There's currently work
being
>>done on porting MGL to wxWindows, and I'm looking at adding wxWindows
>>support to Win32Lib. That means (in a roundabout way) that I might be able
>>to get the wxWindows version of Win32Lib to run under the BeOs using
MGL...
>>ick.
>
>I know SciTech is working on Display Doctor for Be, from a SciTech post on
>a Be message board... no idea about MGL already been ported to Be. But what
>I do know is that a GTK port is under development.
>
>>Have you tried to port Pete's Peuphoria over to Be yet? It doesn't look
like
>>Pete's done a lot to it lately, although I hope he keeps the project up.
>>I'll have to take a look at Peuphoria and see how compatible it is with
>>Win32Lib. I don't think he's implemented any graphics yet, and I rely
pretty
>>heavily on routine_id, which I also thing are not yet implemented.
>
>Bet on that! That why I'm so excited with Be. Just typed MAKE and PEU was
>built without one single warning message. And it runs OK. There's much work
>to do on PEU, but that's a begining. The important thing is a portable code
>base, that can be built unmodified on Linux, (DR)DOS, BeOs, and more to
>come :)
>
>
>
>Regards,
> Daniel Berstein
> [ daber at pair.com ]
>
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