[TML] Mongoose Traveller

[Joshua Bell]

shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:> > Basic is relatively easy to translate. As long as it isn't using > peeks, pokes, embedded machine language or direct harware calls. > Though graphics and sound commands can be a real bear.
I put http://www.calormen.com/Applesoft/ together earlier this year - an Applesoft emulator in Javascript. NOTE - it is NOT intended to be an Apple II emulator, just the Applesoft BASIC language and a few of the hardware features, like lo-res graphics and paddles.
 
The long term goal is to be able to execute the original TRADER source. 
 
This grew out of a slightly earlier task: I working on translating TRADER into Javascript so you could play it on a web page, but at about the 40% mark I realized I was rewriting such a large part of it that it was more akin to just re-implementing Merchant Prince than to a simple port. So I backed up and attacked the problem from the other side.
 
I believe the only big missing feature from being able to run TRADER is being able to read files. This is easy to do (read-only at least - just fetch files via XmlHttpRequest and emulate ye olde CHR$(4) output), the project has just stalled a bit as I was distracted by other shiny things.
 
 
 
 
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