[lojban-beginners] Re: Mac-compatible Logflash?

[Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz>]

J. Scott Jewell wrote:

> .ui.o'unai
>
> Well, after nearly tearing my hair out trying to get Bochs to compile 
> on my machine (just to get something resembling Windows to run on my 
> Mac (just to get DOS running...)), I gave up my hunt and went back to 
> square zero: Google.  I found a nifty little emulator called Dosbox 
> floating around out there that will let me run Logflash on my Mac 
> (though it does cost me most of my system's resources).  However!

Well, there's DOSEMU for Linux, which should compile for OS X if you're 
fairly techy (I have to keep in mind that people on this list aren't all 
Linux experts! Quite a change... :-) ).

Also, FreeDOS should work well with BOCHS, but BOCHS is pretty slow. I 
also run the free version of SuperMemo under WINE on Linux.

I think the better option is to find some proper macintosh software.

> I took a class on Java programming last semester.  Just enough to 
> cover the more complex string-processing stuff, arrays, et cetera.  I 
> think the last two things we did in that class were two-dimensional 
> arrays and getting our programs to read from data files (the latter 
> was taught in a "Well, just trust us, the commands we told you to copy 
> do the job." kind of way).  So I still have eclipse installed on my 
> machine, just in case I ever wanted to do any random Java along the way.

Okay. Hang about on this list. When I feel like it, you'll see another 
version of LearnLojban posted. The current version is 
http://www.gulik.co.nz/LearnLojban_0.0.2.zip, specifically for PDAs, but 
if you're keen, it's possible to get that running on the mac.

> Heh.  If I had a PDA, I think Logflash would be the only thing I used 
> it for.  But then, if I had a PDA, I wouldn't be having this problem, 
> now would I?

PDAs are really cheap second-hand - check out your local online auction 
site.

mi'e maik.