rohn@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (David C Rohn) (07/15/90)
Okay netlanders, maybe YOU guys/gals can help me out! I have been doing
some research on the best development environment for the appleIIs that will
suit my needs. What I am looking for is a development environment that runs
on the IIGS, which allows me to develop code in a high level language
(C, pascal, or basic), is backwards compatible to the 'old' 8-bit AppleII
types, and produces fairly efficient executables (time and space). Also,
one more important factor, I don't want to have to call in an exterminator for
this environment. In other words, I want something that is fairly free of bugs.
I did some calling around to some software developers and they suggested that
I write everything in assembly. They said assembly was the way to go if I
wanted my program to run on 8-bit appleIIs. Do you agree? If so what
assemblers should I use? ORCA/M?
I have a copy of Aztec's Manx C compiler. It seems very bug ridden though.
I would like to develop everything in C, and they seem to have the only
full-powered C program for the earlier IIs.
Thanks,
- Dave
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Since you are running a //gs, I personally would either contact APDA
about getting a copy of APW and APW C (I'm not sure, but I believe
that a cross compiler exists to run under APW to allow the creation of
8 bit Apple programs on the GS). The other suggestion I have is to
look into ORCA/M and ORCA/C (these are essentially <sp> the same as
APW, I believe that they are compatible with APW but I could be
wrong.). Hope this helps...
dennyrond@pro-grouch.cts.com (Ron Dippold) (07/16/90)
In-Reply-To: message from rohn@vax1.acs.udel.EDU > What I am looking for is a development environment that runs > on the IIGS, which allows me to develop code in a high level language > (C, pascal, or basic), is backwards compatible to the 'old' 8-bit AppleII > types, and produces fairly efficient executables (time and space). Also, Hyper C produces apple //e code but runs on the IIgs, AND it is available from Apple2-l at brownvm.brown.edu, along with the patch that lets it run on the //gs. Apple Pascal 1.3 runs on the //gs and produces apple //e code. Both of these are //e products of course, and just happen to run on the IIgs, and I think that's what you're going to find, that any //gs specific development environment/language is going to produce IIgs specific code. UUCP: crash!pro-grouch!rond ARPA: crash!pro-grouch!rond@nosc.mil INET: rond@pro-grouch.cts.com