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Jos Dreesen wrote: My 'simple' MCode interpreter doesn't compile yet (at least I haven't tried to compile it). It's complete apart from the Blitting ops, but it's basically a straight translation from the M2P interpreter. :-) Nevertheless, I think your emulator is more ambitious than what I'd do, I only want to emulate at the MCode level. I think that's true to the spirit of Lilith, it's an abstract machine so the microarchitecture would have changed with future versions. I'll send you the file once it compiles, is that OK? You're welcome to host it on your ftp site. I've been aware of the Filesystem issue - if I were to implement a MCU-baesd PocketLilith I'd redo the filesystem to support directories and a useful disk size - 256Mb? (64K * 4K blocks). Otherwise, not having used one, I didn't know they were so temperamental. Going back to the whole Modula-2 / Lilith theme for the moment. For me, it really is all interesting. Let me take you back to my University days in the UK: 1986 - 1989. At the time we were taught Pascal and C as the main languages (with some 68000 assembler) and had the use of 512K Macs, 1Mb Mac Plusses and some brand-new Mac IIs. We missed out on object-orientation, but in our 3rd year, 1st year Students were being taught Modula-2, a 'big-boys' language, using an early version of MacMeth. But we never knew about Lilith; so we didn't know that Modula-2 wasn't just a conventional language hosted on a graphical computer, but a self-hosted universal systems language integrated with an early graphical computer. So, despite the weaknesses of the platform, the ambition of Lilith/Modula-2 is a real revelation. -cheers from Julz @P