COMAL News articles are added at irregular intervals. The most recent item is at the top of the list. If you would like to include a newsworthy item, please email your copy to support@macharsoft.co.uk.
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Apr 26:MacharSoft Website rebuilt, COMAL support continued
Dec 31:No posts made in 2003
Dec 07:MacharSoft reopens after meltdown
Sep 09:Open COMAL for Linux - Jos Visser
Jun 01:Danish Keyboard in WinME - Graham Crowder
Mar 27:Nonlinear modelling - a package by Guenther Mehring
Jan 25:Objects in Programs - learners' article about the things programmers use
Jan 06:CGI Programming with UniCOMAL
Dec 16:UniCOMAL and Windows XP - first reports
Nov 10:Complex Conditions and logical operators (FAQs).
Oct 20:UniVM - a virtual memory manager module.
Oct 19:The FX Module - a control module for Mitsubishi PLCs.
Oct 18:The Sigma PDA - a German data assistant for the blind.
Aug 25:UniCOMAL on an iMac - a report by Ruth Wood.
Aug 03:Tobias Nissen (Bredstedt, Germany) joins the forum.
July 01:Online sales shop closed - only for a while.
June 18:Peder Hoejer - Forum - UniCOMAL and Mitsubishi PLCs.
June 01:International Keyboard setting (FAQs).
May 13:UniCOMAL on Windows ME - fixing the keyboard problem.
May 7:UniCOMAL on Windows ME - first report of experiences.
Apr 28: Exact Multiplication to 40 significant figures. Whaur's yer floating point noo?
Feb 09: Grant McConnell from Canada joins the forum.
Jan 07: Pointers and Dynamic Data Structures - a taster article for advanced programmers.
Dec 31: CAPITAL Module - an undocumented string module in UniCOMAL V3.11 Developers'.
Oct 16: UniCOMAL String Handling - an article for Student COMAL users.
Sep 22: AmigaCOMAL Demo Diskette - Amiga COMAL development system including compiler
Sep 20: Power COMAL Interpreter for the C64 - A free Commodore COMAL interpreter with tutorials
Sep 02: "No Manuals" Discount - A discount is now available to site licence purchasers if they don't need reference manuals.
Aug 11: Java 1.3 with WebCOMAL - Using the latest version of the JRE (V1.3) with WebCOMAL.
Jul 31: Kanji-Flash/BTJ - Learn Japanese with Dr Craig Van Degrift's Japanese flashcard program, developed using COMAL.
Jun 24: Program Language Lists - Links to a few lists.
Jun 15: WebDice - a WebCOMAL example project.
Jun 11: The first batch of uploads from Lasse Storr-Hansen.
May 30: Lasse Storr-Hansen in the forum.
May 11: WebCOMAL: A simple Font Viewer.
May 7: WebCOMAL: Message Scoreboard example project.
May 6: WebCOMAL: "Running Remote" update.
Apr 28: WebCOMAL: Tutorial Part 1.
Apr 16: WebCOMAL: Directing output to a browser frame.
Apr 11: WebCOMAL: Running WebCOMAL remote - a WebCOMAL server on a LAN.
Mar 27: WebCOMAL - Web page scripting with UniCOMAL.
Mar 11: Scope differences with Acorn COMAL.
Mar 11: Link to Alasdair Davis Acorn COMAL webpage.
Feb 19: VICE C64 Emulator and COMAL-80
Jan 29: Windows NT4.0 and 2000 - problems and FAQs
Jan 29: Dierk Schrøder (Kiel, Germany) joins the forum.
Jan 28: Students' version 3.12 released.
Jan 03: Another Browser using Buttons V2.0
Dec 24: Event handling with a metronome demo.
Nov 19: An upgrade to the Buttons module
Nov 02: Long file names in UniCOMAL.
Oct 19: "UniCOMAL from the Start" evaluation edition upgraded.
Oct 12: Screen Dumps from UniCOMAL Graphics.
Sep 11: The game of GO in UniCOMAL with Gadgets
Aug 26: Windows 2000 and UniCOMAL - first trials.
Aug 12: improved version of textbook demo: to download
Aug 04: A Yahtzee program and a Database from Nicholas Seachord
Aug 03: a new programming textbook: "UniCOMAL from the Start"
Jun 30: Nicholas Seachord joins the forum, with a new download
Jun 18: Guide to the Manuals in UniCOMAL V3.11 Developers'
Jun 03: Crosslinked index to COMAL topics
May 24: Readers in Scotland: Higher Still S. D. Unit: UniCOMAL Solutions notes.
May 20: Notes on the COMALC Compiler.
May 15: A 'Buttons' Hexadecimal Calculator.
May 02: VCOMbase 0.21 - Visual COMAL Prototype, File menu reduced.
Apr 25: UniCOMAL runs in DOSEMU in Linux on the platforms page.
Apr 24: VCOMbase 0.2 - Visual COMAL prototype with help file
Apr 21: Bauernschach - a self-learning strategy game to download.
Apr 16: VCOMbase - the first demo for Visual COMAL
Mar 12: Another look at printing Audit Trails from programs.
Feb 03: Year 2000 Diagnostics (Shareware) to download
Jan 22: New pricelist - small reduction in Developer's, Euro pricing
Nov 24: Scientific Graphical Module (SGM) to download
Nov 15: MS Windows 3.1 - Note on setting up UniCOMAL Students'
Nov 3: Special offer on Students' version closed.
Oct 22:New telephone number for MacharSoft.
Oct 16: Dumper and Borg - a hex dump program, and a PE file disassembler, to download
Oct 13: Windows NT 4.0 - possible file handling problem with UniCOMAL?
Oct 12: Uni3D2: 3D solid modelling demo to download
Oct 8: New Win95 installation leaflet added to Student Comal
Sept 27: Uni3D - a wireframe modelling module - to download.
Sept 15: More help for users upgrading from Acorn COMAL
Sept 9: Special offer on Students' Version
August 20: Z80 Emulators and COMAL-80, on Platforms page
July 23: Recursion Tutorial - a major work on recursion by Dick Klingens.
July 22: Gadgets V1.2 - an update to Iain King's gadgets module.
June 22: Queues - a simulation for Higher Still Programming.
June 14: String handling utilities by Karlheinz Nester in downloads section
June 12: The optional programming unit in Higher Still: continued
May 20: "Dualout" printing module in downloads section.
May 19: Professor Dan Debra on Comal in control.
May 16: Printer ports uncovered and their handling explained.
May 11: About COMAL - a general description - added.
May 09: Acorn COMAL file converter V0.6 uploaded.
May 03: RND function problems and patches, FAQs page.
Apr 28: An XPL/0 compiler in COMAL! See downloads page, xpl0.zip
Apr 20: MS-Windows notes updated - see the Windows page
Apr 17: A bibliography of COMAL - J John O'Gorman - in the forum.
Apr 13: GADGETS module - Iain King's UniCOMAL GUI
Apr 12: Filing-system navigator and .DBF file maker to download.
Apr 10: More files available on the Downloads page
Mar 30: Cross-platform area begun.
Mar 15: New users Forum area open!
Mar 12: New prices (slightly reduced) & US dollar pricing.
Feb 05: Readers in Scotland - Have you seen the Higher Still page?
Jan 25: Prolog, ESTA and Artificial Intelligence: free demo diskette.
Latest update 5 May 2004