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From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: An Emulator for the Amiga
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Date: 10 Dec 89 03:26:33 GMT
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Speaking from several years' experience with VT240's in both ReGIS and
Sixel, believe me, ReGIS alone is Godawful complex.  There are commands 
and subcommands and options and suboptions and several levels of save/restore
for dozens of variables; bitmap manipulations and masks and polygon fills and
arc-splining and text and macros...  Whew.  A terse, two-lines-per-command 
DESCRIPTION of ReGIS commands, alone, comes to about five or six pages just 
in the "reference card."  It's more like FORTY pages in the programmer's 
manual...

I still have a fond dream of someday writing a ReGIS interpreter, but by
golly I haven't gotten a handle on it yet after four years of brainstorming...
:-)