malpass@LL-VLSI.ARPA (Don Malpass) (03/01/88)
Somehow I've had it in my head that turbo-c was ONLY ibm and true-clone specific. Have I been wrong all this time? I bought it for this AT at work, but have not even fired it up yet. The [first class] documentation says on the cover "PC, XT, AT, & True Compatibles", but if I can make it play at home I'll try to push it higher in my queue. What's the word for z-100 users? don [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa]
tsl@netsys.UUCP (Tom Livingston) (03/05/88)
Well, Turbo C works on the Z-100.... sortof. tcc, the command line
version of Turbo C works without any emulation, produces normal DOS code,
and has no problems. You will obviously have problems if you try to use
any of the obvious IBM specific calls (grapics, sound, bios...) will not
work, but standard calls will definately, just like Microsoft C, or whatever.
tc will work with ZPC very well... I ran it in the monochrome mode once or
twice, and had no problems... again, it will produce the same code, the
intergrated enviroment is just a front end.
NOTE -- All of these comments are relative to Turbo C 1.0. I have
1.5, but haven't been able to test it out... and I remeber that there may be
aproblem with the default printf() and all other screen writes in 1.5 from
something they said in the update. If this is the case, it would only
involve setting the mode each time, or hacking the .h files...
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