aron (10/28/82)
Here is a summary of stuff I got so far on Z-80 Cs. If I get more I'll post an updated summary. Does anyone know anything about Supersoft C? I saw an ad for it in BYTE? aron shtull-trauring harpo!presby!aron ************* Subject: C for Z-80; one to avoid The Software Toolworks' C/80. Although not completely unusable (I've been using it a lot for text processing development), its I/O is simply not good. Aside from the fact that they're using V6 semantics (fin and fout!), output to the screen is a complete special case, regardless of what you do. E.g., putchar(c) is NOT equivalent to putc(c, fout); the former works, whereas the latter fails with unpredictable results. I've heard good things about BDS C and the Aztec II C compiler, but have no first hand experience with either. If you get some information, you may want to consider posting a summary; I, for one, would be in interested in alternatives to what we have. Steve Knight ihps3!stolaf!knight harpo!stolaf!knight ************* Subject: Re: C for Z-80 machines The best seems to be Aztec C II from Manx Software. It implements all of Kernighan & Ritchie, and its I/O library looks like stdio. For $195, you get two compilers, one for 8080/8085 and one for Z80 ("register" declarations use BC, IX, IY). PO Box 55 Shrewsbury, NJ 07701 (201) 780-4004