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    From Rick Smith@1:105/10.1 to All on Saturday, April 10, 2021 14:17:10
    Greetings All!


    I spent a bit of the day moving mystic hpt and binkd to my manjaro pi and when all done
    mystic wouldnt start... Just realized that there is no 64bit pi version of mystic.. any
    chance there will be or should I scrap the project?



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    Rick Smith (Nitro)

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Rick Smith on Sunday, April 11, 2021 14:59:01
    mystic wouldnt start... Just realized that there is no 64bit pi version
    of mysti c.. any chance there will be or should I scrap the project?

    Raspberry Pi OS does not support 64-bit yet so neither does Mystic (officially anyway). The last time I looked the Pi Foundation was still saying that 64-bit is not stable yet. It didn't seem like a good use of my time to try to get it working on a platform that identifies itself as unstable (at the time).

    That doesn't mean I haven't prepared though. There is a 64-bit Mystic for ARM and you can find it as mys112a47_p64.zip in the prealphas folder. I have no way to test it so there is no guarentee that its going to work. If you try it let me know how it goes!

    I have been waiting for the Pi Foundation to give the green light on 64-bit before I buy/setup hardware to "officially" support it.
    I think most 64-bit Linux distributions can also run 32-bit binaries too if you install some compatibility libraries so that is probably an option for you too.

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  • From Michael Pierce@1:105/5 to g00r00 on Monday, April 12, 2021 23:11:16
    Hello g00r00!


    That doesn't mean I haven't prepared though. There is a 64-bit Mystic
    for ARM and you can find it as mys112a47_p64.zip in the prealphas
    folder. I have no way to test it so there is no guarentee that its
    going to work. If you try it let me know how it goes!


    great work there :-)
    testing mystic, both mide and mplc are giving runtime errors

    following is message from ./mplc -T

    === Cut ===
    Mystic MPL Compiler v1.12 A47 (Linux/64 2021/04/11 14:56:33)
    Copyright (C) 1997-2021 By James Coyle. All Rights Reserved.

    Runtime error 216 at $000000000040245C
    $000000000040245C
    $0000000000400850
    $0000000000400E0C
    $0000000000400168
    === Cut ===

    below is copy of runtime error from ./mide


    Runtime error 216 at $0000000000407C80
    this one, the screen comes up, but once you press escape, you get a runtime error

    hope this helps :-)

    Michael


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