JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (03/09/88)
The January 1988 issue of "Call -A.P.P.L.E." had an excellent article by Mike Westerfield titled "Programming on the Apple IIgs with APW and related products: A survey of APW products" (pages 26-30). Among other things, it described the differences between the APW, ORCA/M, and ORCA/Pascal environments. Maybe several excerpts will answer the most often asked questions. "Apple contracted with the Byte Works to translate and extend ORCA/M..." to become the APW shell. "Besides the shell, there are three areas where the two systems differ. The first is the linker." ORCA/M comes with a linker used from the command line. The APW linker can also be used from the command line, "but it also has a script-driven mode." "The second major difference is the macros that come with each system." "Finally, the documentation is considerably different." The February 1988 issue of "Call -A.P.P.L.E." had another excellent article by Mike Westerfield titled "Programming on the Apple IIgs with APW and related products: Using APW on small systems" (pages 31-36). This article described how you can set up an APW based system when you have less than 1.25 megabytes. The bottom line is that you will need about 400-700K for a small APW based system--the exact size depends on the language and options that you select. ------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU ARPA: jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892
laba-4an@web6e.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (03/10/88)
Has anyone located a good C compiler for the //gs that doesn't require APW (with its large hardware requirements)? There are four versions of //gs BASIC (some in Beta testing), at least two of Pascal (TML, one other I saw in the last APDAlog), and several 65816 assembler programs. But the only way to make native code C programs is to use the APW compiler, and I don't have the money to buy the disk storage or the RAM. Thanks for any help... -- "There is beauty in computers, and beauty in people; but only one can understand the other."