Re: Announcement: Contiki for the Apple2

[Glenn Jones <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

BluPhoenyx wrote:
> Glenn Jones wrote:
>
> > Hi Bart, Glad you like Contiki. Adam did a wonderful job creating it 
> > and  Oliver has been putting a polish on and making it shine!
> >
> > Telnet is there on the first disk image. You can start it from the 
> > directory app or from the run menu ... enter telnet.prg
>
>
> I wonder how hard it would be for Contiki to take advantage of the GS' 
> capabilities. Perhaps making use of color text or a graphics mode. 
> Unfortunately, my GS development skills are very limited so I may be day 
> dreaming here.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike T.


Hi Mike,

I can't see any reason why someone with the skills could not develop 
another Contiki target that takes advantage of some of the IIgs's 
advanced capabilites.

Colour text would be doable I think - graphics would be a lot of work.
Things are pretty tight in the 6502 version now so I am not sure how 
viable doing HGR would be in the current code base.

One other thing to consider is that the C compiler (cc65) used to 
compile Contiki for the Apple II platform doesn't support 65816.

Since Contiki has been ported to other targets using other C compilers, 
one could conceiveably use Orca/C to build a IIgs (65816) version of 
Contiki.

How much work would be involved in that remains to be explored :)

Glenn