It looks like a few of the games did make it into the internet archive's DOS collection. Here's Dark Woods 2: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dark_Woods_2_2002 And here's.... Bob Saget Killer 2000? Okay, whatever internet preservationists. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bob_Saget_Killer_2000_19...

The internet archive just posted 2400+ old MS-DOS games on-line, powered by a port of DosBox to Javascript using Emscripten. em-dosbox is on github, and while it was a pain to set up, it turns out it's pretty dead simple to zip up dos programs into a website. So, I tried it with a few QBasic gems. I...

I applied your optimization for sink states in the FB lexer and submitted it to the git repository.

Looking at that wiki example I think you just want a parser generator. With sections, Poodle could be used as a rudimentary parser generator, but a really terrible. It's like writing an OS in a batch file. Yes, it's possible, but yes, it's horrible (and after 16 levels of recursion you'll run out of...

WIth the error lines, that turned out to be a case of lazy initialization. Variables aren't parsed until they're instanced, so the exception was caught while processing the line which actually instanced the variable. The issue is fixed now in the git repository. I'll replace the installer I posted l...

After fixing some dumb errors in Poodle, I tried out your java lexer. I didn't observe any errors with Token.ToString(), but identifiers were not getting captured. It did seem to choke on a string literal in the hello world example I tried. I looked a bit at the dot graph and it's getting confused b...

On the stack code, you caught me being lazy :) I might spend some time and update that in the future. Man, I wish FB had generics. [EDIT] Ouch, tried the java example and got an error because "protected" was misspelled in the reserved keyword list. Fixed! [EDIT] Oh man, it took me awhile t...

Been awhile, right? I took a small break to deal with some things, but I've working on and off on Poodle ironing out kinks with Unicode and bringing back GraphViz (.dot) output. I also found some time to add an XML output plug-in. Here's another pre-release to capture that progress: https://github.c...

Yeah, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea of half-assing a standard, so I went ahead and implemented it anyway. I think I have all of the RL's in level 1 compliance, though I couldn't implement unicode line and word boundaries since Poodle doesn't support those. Adding the Unicode databases shot up ...

I've kind of resisted treating Perl regex as a de facto standard, so with the exception of variable substitution all conventions thus far have come from the POSIX ERE standard. But, Unicode properties are really handy. Luckily, the Unicode consortium published this handy technical report: http://www...

I'd say any software that's been publicly released and actively developed for 9 years deserves at least a 1.0 release. I'm looking forward to checking it out!

Another 2.0 pre-release: https://github.com/parkertomatoes/poodle-lex/releases/tag/v1.9.6-alpha This round adds the following changes: * Numerous fixes to hierarchical lexer generation * Named codepoint constants for the FB emitter * Experimental FBC lexer example The 2.0 release is starting to soli...

Despite the lack of posts, I've made some pretty good progress on version 2 of Poodle-Lex. Basically, this version brings in recursive rules, which brings the tool to feature parity with lex/flex and finally allows for the creation of a FreeBasic lexer (specifically, nested comments). While I have y...

Okay, fixed what I think are the issues with whitespace and comments at the end of the file, line numbers, underscores, and unclosed strings. https://github.com/parkertomatoes/poodle-lex/releases/tag/1.0.1 I'll integrate these changes into the unstable branch and write some unit tests to cover them ...

Wow, I can't believe I missed this stuff.

The comment issue and the newline issue seem related. I think I'll probably need to push out a bugfix release, maybe 1.1. I'll be sure to add some unit tests for this stuff as well.