Re: Announcement: Contiki for the Apple2

[Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de>]

Hi Paul,

>Nice one Oliver, it was worth the wait!

Thanks :-)

> Any chance that we'll get mouse driven
>mousetext menus on the "enhanced IIe" version?  (Or at least keyboard
>driven mousetext menus).  With all of those nifty symbols in ROM one
>can't help to think about spicing things up a bit.

Chances for mouse support aren't bad, but don't bet on it yet.

Regarding more intensive use of mousetext one has to consider that
Contiki is a highly portable multi-platform project. This makes it a
"little" difficult to explore very special features.

Additionally Contiki is written nearly completely in C and is built
using cc65 (thanks to Uz !) on the A2. It makes heavy use of the
C-library to
a) keep it portable
b) keep it fast/small as the C-library is written nearly completely in
assembler.
Bypassing the C-library breaks both and is therefore generally to
avoid. And the cc65 C-library for the A2 has very limitted support for
mousetext - just as much as you already experience.

Oliver