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  • A question about programming the IIGS

    From wolfgang@wolfgang@eulonline.de (Wolfgang Eul) to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:20:55
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    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?

    I googled some days but found a lot of death links...

    Greetings from Germany,

    Wolfgang@eulonline.de
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  • From email@email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams) to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 02:58:16
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    John B. Matthews <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

    In article <85b9dabb.0307150920.4a875fd1@posting.google.com>,
    wolfgang@eulonline.de (Wolfgang Eul) wrote:

    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?

    I googled some days but found a lot of death links...

    Greetings from Germany,

    Wolfgang@eulonline.de

    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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    www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/

    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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  • From supertimer@supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 18:35:59
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    wolfgang@eulonline.de (Wolfgang Eul) wrote:

    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.
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