Orca <-- What is this program?

[Jeff W. Schroeder]

Could someone please shed a little light on what Orca 4. for the Apple IIe is

A friend gave me~ a box of his old apple disks and I am wondering what this
is used for. I am assuming it is some sort of an assembler program or something.

Any insight would be appreciated

Thnax

Teke

[David Empson]

In article <3eqn7f$p...@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,

Jeff W. Schroeder <te...@umich.edu> wrote:
> Could someone please shed a little light on what Orca 4. for the
> Apple IIe is

It is a programming environment, including editor, assembler and
shell. I don't know how similar it is to the ORCA environment for the
IIgs, but it was the basis for the IIgs version. I've never seen the
8-bit version.
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David Empson
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[Tero Sand]

In article <D250p...@actrix.gen.nz>,

David Empson <dem...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>In article <3eqn7f$p...@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
>Jeff W. Schroeder <te...@umich.edu> wrote:
>> Could someone please shed a little light on what Orca 4. for the
>> Apple IIe is
>
>It is a programming environment, including editor, assembler and
>shell. I don't know how similar it is to the ORCA environment for the
>IIgs, but it was the basis for the IIgs version. I've never seen the
>8-bit version.

It is rather, shall we say depressingly IMO (read on), similar. It was a
very good programming environment for its time (83-84), but ORCA/M 2.x
for the GS is definitely ho-hum IMO. By buying some add-ons (e.g.
splat!) it perhaps becomes decent, although GNO of course has more
potential.

>David Empson
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