I think, but I'm not 100% certain, that the source code for Turbo, The
Editor etc, by the author
who's name escapes me right now, are or were online many years ago. I may
even have
downloaded them at some point. I remember definitely looking through the
source for
The Editor so I did get it somewhere legal.
Turbo was originally by Simon Goodwin and Chas Dillon. At various stages,
parts were updated by David Gilham, Mark Knight and George Gwilt. George
maintains it now and both the compiler, toolkit, manuals and sources are
available to download free of charge nowadays from George's site at
http://gwiltprogs.info/page2.htm
The Editor was originally from Chas Dillon and was updated by Mark Knight as
"Editor 2000". This updated version plus sources is available to download as
freeware from my site at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/editview/index.html
The sources for many of Chas Dillon's programs are at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/cdillon/index.html (sadly not including CPort).
These are Freeware and not public domain. At the time, Chas only supplied me
with the sources - you will need Turbo to recompile them and some of them
include only limited documentation.
Unfortunately, I don't still have a copy of Chas's original message (lost
during computer failure a few years ago) concerning the release of his QL
software and without that email I can't be 100% sure that all of his
programs were covered. I do remember that his copies were held on the hard
disk of a failed Thor XVI and what appears on my site was what he had been
able to recover at the time.
Perhaps if Rich or anyone else I was in contact with at the time has copies
of that email, I could do with a copy to verify exactly what was said.
Reverse engineering a compiled SuperBasic task might be more trouble than
simply
rewriting from scratch? If necessary there's a program I wrote yes ago,
which Dilwyn
updated, that decodes a QSAVE'd program. I'm certain that could be used as
the basis
for a new Cport lexer perhaps. It is called something like decode_qsave or
similar.
It formed the basis of a Quanta Helpline article, available from the Quanta
website at
https://quanta.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/QUANTA-HELPLINE-07.pdf - I
think it's the same article as the one below. The updating Norman referred
to was to get it to decode some additional tokens in SBASIC.
There's a doc file here, I think it's Word format:
http://www.sitelevel.com/click?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dilwyn.me.uk%2fdocs%2fformats%2fsavfiles.doc&sid=YCsXx5g7rfbNG11e
- which contains a listing of the program.
Also at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/formats/savfiles.pdf
Dilwyn Jones
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