First post, by 4xtx
I was recently poking around looking for obscure and obsolete scripting languages for early versions of Windows.
The language structure looks like an ancestoral VBScript..
I found a few references to Oriel and managed to find a download on some random page.
The download is of a demo version and it unfortunately does not contain any reference material.
The only thing I can find is a hard copy book which apparently has a distribution of this demo included.
Why do I want to look into this obscure thing?
It appears to interpret/run under Windows 3.0 in real mode which means I can write some small utility or application without resorting to TPW or Watcom C toolchains.
There are very few programming languages which run/compile in real mode - example; VB did not support real mode at all and rightfully so..
I use real mode in a few projects for XT class projects and it would be neat to have (what appears to be) a comprehensive scripting language available.
What am I looking for specifically?
Reference information! While I can deduce some of the syntax and commands - a proper reference would be helpful.
Original media - there is reference to a "compiler" which would be of great interest
Anyone who has worked with Oriel in the past