[GEM Development] Quickmap

[Ben A L Jemmett]

> AND a whole
> 'nother app. - which MAY not be a GEM one - called
> QuickText. It is claimed to be some sort of database.

It's not a GEM app, but appears to be written in the same language -- MegaBasic,
according to strings found in QuickText's RUN.EXE (and also, now I look more
carefully, in QuickMap's QM400.EXE).  Interesting...  So was QuickMap's AES
written in a BASIC dialect?  And who would have put the bulk of the effort into
a port -- DRI presumably?

A bit of Googling turns up <http://www.timeslice.ca/megabas.html>, which
mentions Chris Cochran -- the same name appears in both runtimes...  Wonder if
it's worth contacting him; either someone spent a lot of time and effort on
QuickMap, or this MegaBasic could produce GEM apps with relative ease.  Maybe.

-- 
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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