Aztec C Official Online Museum
Bill Buckels
The history has been revised and since Harry Suckow (who holds the
Copyrights) has given permission for the site the conditions of use have
been revised and clarified.
More updates and complete revamping and expansion of the site are planned in
the near future, but this update and a dedicated domain was long overdue.
The site can still be accessed through the previous links as well, since
both point to the same server.
Also getting their own domains are:
and
These sites are related to Aztec C in a big way and will also see major
changes and expansion in the near future.
Have Fun!
Bill Buckels
PS - any of you "Philadephia Lawyers" who have made uncharitable comments
about the Aztec C site's legitimacy and my own as well in this effort can
now return to normal programming.
Bill Buckels
http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/AztecCAppleXOrg.zip
By Bill Buckels
Last Revised August 2008
This zip file contains the complete and original disks from the Manx Aztec
C65 Version 3.2b MS-DOS Cross-Development environment for the Apple IIe.
The MS-DOS disks are in subdirectories 1-3.
The ProDOS disk is in subdirectory 4.
The DOS 3.3 disk is in subdirectory 5.
However this will not be of much interest unless you are willing to put a
fair amount of effort into creating a working environment or you are a
collector. The Apple33 and AppleX distributions of this same compiler also
available from http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/ are preconfigured for DOS 3.3 or
ProDOS targets and come with sample programs. They may suit your purposes
better. Other Aztec C Apple II compilers are also available from the
website.
The Apple side of this compiler distribution (subdirectories 4 and 5) is in
the form of diskimages. The previous distribution of this zip file did not
include these but in the interim I purchased a Microdrive and a CF card for
my Apple //e so I was able to convert the Apple disks to diskimages using
the utilities that came on the CF card with the Microdrive and port these
back to my PC on the CF card.
The DOS 3.3 disk does not provide the DOS 3.3 Aztec C SHELL. The ProDOS disk
provides SHELL.SYSTEM. Both disks contain the Aztec C xfer program.
When this compiler was produced, the usual way to transfer files between
computers (especially different types of computers) was with a serial (NULL
modem) cable, The xfer program provided with Aztec C for DOS 3.3 transfers
the linker output (the executable) as-is as a DOS 3.3 bloadable binary file
with the ubiquituous 4 byte BSave header intact. The ProDOS version of xfer
strips this header. In either case the header information is used to record
the the executable correctly on the target system.
Since this linker always tags the 4 byte header on all executables, if Aztec
C's xfer program is not used with a serial cable, the ProDOS executables
will need to have the header stripped and the file information placed in the
ProDOS system by some other means. The AppleX environment has a utility
called MAKEPRO that does this. This zip does not,
So to recap, the purpose of the Apple disks is to provide an xfer slave on
the Apple II to receive file transfers through a serial cable from the xfer
master on the IBM-PC.
This concludes my synopsis about all this. The Aztec C Museum website has
additional documentation for utilities and library functions, and the
preconfigured versions can be reviewed for an overview of different working
configurations.
Have Fun!
Bill Buckels
bbuc...@mts.net
August, 2008
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