[Oberon] Oberon System emulator for Windows

[Joerg]

Michael

thx for the —hostfs switch.

Jörg

> Am 12.02.2020 um 21:08 schrieb Michael Schierl <schierlm at gmx.de>:
> 
> Jörg,
> 
> 
>> Am 12.02.2020 um 07:22 schrieb Jörg:
>> I use the emulator on the Mac by Roel P. de Jong. The comfortable thing
>> with this emulator is, that the files are directly Mac files. No disk
>> image needed.
>> 
>> https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oberon-workstation/id1057155516?ls=1&mt=12
> 
> You can have a similar result on Windows with my emulator fork too, if
> you use the --hostfs switch. You will need to change the FileDir and
> Files modules and (if you want to use System.Directory with the "!"
> flag) the List procedure in System module. Then point --hostfs to a
> directory and files will be read/written from there. As in Oberon you
> can delete files that are still open (and also create files and later
> assign a name to them), these files will get temporary names starting
> with ~ on Windows (which does not support this behaviour) and will get
> deleted when the emulator is started next time. Also, there might still
> be some race conditions that cause the emulator to crash when using
> hostfs, but it works well enough for me.
> 
> A disk image is still needed, but only for loading the inner core from.
> An example disk image with a matching directory of precompiled modules
> is available attached to one of the older releases on the GitHub page
> for my emulator.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Michael