A question about programming the IIGS
Wolfgang Eul
After a lot of years programming for windows, i returned to my roots
(as kid i used a TI-99/4A, then developed apple-ii-software for some
years) and bought an apple IIgs on ebay. Perfect!
But now i'm a little bit disappointed: Programming in Applesoft under
ProDOS8 seems not to be very hip on a GS/OS-machine, i forgot
everything about 6502-assembler... what programming language to use?
Is there any useful Interpreter/Compiler for Basic or Pascal to
download?
I googled some days but found a lot of death links...
Greetings from Germany,
John B. Matthews
wolf...@eulonline.de (Wolfgang Eul) wrote:
The Kyan Pascal archive at ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/ just
happens to include some code with German comments. Also see my site for
some Kyan Pascal sample code:
http://www.wright.edu/~john.matthews/apple2.html
John
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Simon Williams
ZBasic looks promising too, all the docs are available in pdf and
there's versions for 64K and 128K. I think I found it at Ground, though
I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, it seems quite a bit more capable than
Applesoft -- though I've only been mucking around for a few days, so
that's a qualified endorsement at best ;-)
-simon
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Supertimer
>Hi there!
>
>After a lot of years programming for windows, i returned to my roots
>(as kid i used a TI-99/4A, then developed apple-ii-software for some
>years) and bought an apple IIgs on ebay. Perfect!
>
>But now i'm a little bit disappointed: Programming in Applesoft under
>ProDOS8 seems not to be very hip on a GS/OS-machine, i forgot
>everything about 6502-assembler... what programming language to use?
>
>Is there any useful Interpreter/Compiler for Basic or Pascal to
>download?
You can download the compilers the others have
mentioned but you will find they have the same
limitations as Applesoft, namely they work in
8-bit emulation mode, unable to fully (if at all)
access the capabilities of the IIGS and GS/OS.
Based on what you seem to ask for, I would
suggest ORCA C or ORCA Pascal. Those
are pretty much the way you write the GUI
windowed GS/OS programs you see.
Unless you want to program "on-the-metal" in
which case I don't know where you would start.
It can be done as the late FTA dramatically
showed.