novaBBS - comp.os.cpm

Re: COMAL

<30bd6a87-999d-4506-8cc8-b26df18bc27fn@googlegroups.com>

https://www.novabbs.com/devel/article-flat.php?id=3223&group=comp.os.cpm#3223

X-Received: by 2002:a37:8606:0:b0:67e:7cb6:a055 with SMTP id i6-20020a378606000000b0067e7cb6a055mr1991798qkd.152.1647746192667;
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 2002:a05:6870:b012:b0:da:b3f:3242 with SMTP id
y18-20020a056870b01200b000da0b3f3242mr6281093oae.242.1647746192193; Sat, 19
Mar 2022 20:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
Path: i2pn2.org!i2pn.org!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <3aaec2b9.8607954@news.iowact1.ia.home.com>
Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2607:fb90:4b5f:d778:414:c003:2086:df1e;
posting-account=XWUFKAkAAAD3OEoYNxVdWapA4rRxf4ow
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2607:fb90:4b5f:d778:414:c003:2086:df1e
References: <975n9v$k8l$1@wanadoo.fr> <97fu2c$f3t$1@newsmaster.axxent.ca>
<98las6$kmj$1@wanadoo.fr> <3aaec2b9.8607954@news.iowact1.ia.home.com>
User-Agent: G2/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <30bd6a87-999d-4506-8cc8-b26df18bc27fn@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: COMAL
From: socalgoo...@gmail.com (Ray McMillan)
Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 03:16:32 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Lines: 31

by: Ray McMillan - Sun, 20 Mar 2022 03:16 UTC

On Tuesday, March 13, 2001 at 8:51:40 PM UTC-8, Alan Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:36:57 +0100, "arobase, Salle multimédia"
> <arobase1....@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >Regarding the demo version of COMAL that I found on a
> >commercial Web site in Scotland: I have finally found how
> >to test it on an IBM Clown, using 22NICE.
> >
> >Among the CP/M computer that the INSTALL program
> >recognizes is KAYPRO, which was a best-seller in the USA.
> >Yours Sincerely,
> >"French Lurker"
> I was a C64/128 COMAL 2.0 user. I have both the CP/M COMAL demo and
> full versions (I'm not sure where, I never used it.) On the C64/128
> the CP/M version was only of interest because it was chaper than the
> COMAL 2.0 cartridge. A major feature of COMAL 2.0 is ML packages,
> particularly when placed in EPROM, and this is one of incompatabilites
> bewteen the two versions. Also, the C128 was not an ideal CP/M
> computer. I don't think COMAL was ever popular on CP/M.
> There are native COMAL impleminations for IBM PCs. I don't have any
> of them. I know there are C64 and CP/M emulators for IBM PCs, but I
> have not tried them. (Too little time.) However, I do have some
> interest and I want to encourage you to evalute them and share your
> results here.
> I have an extra copy of Len Lindsay's The Comal Handbook, Second
> Edition. However, you probably want the later loose leaf Common COMAL
> Reference, which I also have. I also have all of the COMAL Today
> nesletters and disks. I'm not inclined to part with any of it. In
> fact, if I could get some more copies of the Handbook, I would try to
> teach an informal COMAL course. I think Len still holds the copywrite
> for these materials, so you would to get permission to reproduce them.
> Alan Jones
Hello all. Alan Jones.......are you still here?

Re: COMAL

<t17o2i$1rc7$1@gioia.aioe.org>

copy mid

https://www.novabbs.com/devel/article-flat.php?id=3224&group=comp.os.cpm#3224

copy link Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm

Path: i2pn2.org!i2pn.org!aioe.org!lAEivAvH3HkrYCTv/9SBig.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: do8...@torfree.net (David Snowdon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: COMAL
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:25:36 -0400
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID: <t17o2i$1rc7$1@gioia.aioe.org>
References: <975n9v$k8l$1@wanadoo.fr> <97fu2c$f3t$1@newsmaster.axxent.ca> <98las6$kmj$1@wanadoo.fr> <3aaec2b9.8607954@news.iowact1.ia.home.com> <30bd6a87-999d-4506-8cc8-b26df18bc27fn@googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="60807"; posting-host="lAEivAvH3HkrYCTv/9SBig.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org";
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)
X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 220320-2, 20/3/2022), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2

by: David Snowdon - Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:25 UTC

400 Mb of COMAL info and programs in a ZIP file:
https://archive.org/details/comal-collection

David

---
Ray McMillan wrote:
> Hello all. Alan Jones.......are you still here?

--
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. -- Stephan Zielinski

devel / comp.os.cpm / Re: COMAL

Subject	Author
Re: COMAL	Ray McMillan
Re: COMAL	David Snowdon