Re: Porting TADS
13 Oct 1995 11:01:07 -0400
In article <45k4pn$atc@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
}
}In article <19951010.210000.43@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk>, jools@arnod.demon.co.uk (Julian Arnold) writes:
}
}|> people are
}|> not being given the go-ahead to port TADS or update existing ports for
}|> "minor" systems (ie, non-IBM or non-Mac).
}
}Seems like there is an opportunity here for some enterprising
}enthusiast to reverse-engineer the TADS runtime format and
}create a freely-available interpreter.
}
}Shouldn't be any harder than it was with the Z-machine...
It's considerably more complex (I dug a little into the format), but
you'd be helped by the fact that the source code is known to you,
and the compiled code has a similar structure (aside from
tokenization, the major difference I found was that control structures
were replaced by the equivalent of gotos)
--
Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com russotto@his.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."