Re: Portability (TADS on Acorns)


13 Jun 1995 18:50:15 GMT

In article <19950612.141937.19@arnod.demon.co.uk>,
Julian Arnold <jools@arnod.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>The only problem I've had so far is that it won't run `The Legend Lives'
>because of (I suppose) the GO32 DOS extender.

Yes, that's a drawback of protected mode; it really requires the emulator
to emulate intricacies of the Intel chips that are tough to get right (not
to mention speedy enough).

Does the Acron have a Unix-like development environment? If so, I don't
think a TADS port would be hard at all.

Dave Baggett
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