Re: Apple IIGS APW Disk Images ?

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

> > Bill, I bought tthe Opus a while back.
> >
> > FYI, it does include MPW IIgs C compiler but it does not include the MPW
> > IIgs Assembler, linker or other tools ..so it (MPW IIgs C)  is
essentialy
> > useless without the other items.
> >
> > You must also download MPW iteself from Apple (free).
> >
> > I don't mind paying Eric and Mike for the tools but I wish the apple
IIgs
> > documentation would be released so we could have electronic copies
> > available. Apparently Syndicomm's license from Apple does not permit
> > electronic distribution of these docuements.
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> >
>
> IIRC, MPW Ciigs isn't 32-bit clean and needs an "old world" Mac to
> create a usable executable for the IIGS. I never could create one on my
> iMac, but could from MPW on a Mac SE30. The SE30 also had an older
> version of MPW.
>
> Ciigs is not ANSI C but a bastardized version of K&R C (since it
> predates the ANSI/ISO C standard, it'd have to be ;). Personally, I
> would recommend buying ORCA/C and running it in Bernie 2 the Rescue or
> KEGS. That is what I do. You get much better compiled code from ORCA/C.
> And APW is just an earlier version of the ORCA environment that Apple
> bought from The Byte Works, IIRC, so I wouldn't even bother with APW,
> except for historical purposes.
>
> To the OP who posed the question in the subject: Get a paper route or do
> some baby sitting and buy OPUS ][. Sometimes it really doesn't pay to be
> cheap. If you really, really can't afford the ORCA programming tools
> because you are disabled or something there is a free Modula2 compiler
> for the IIGS that is really quite good and can be found in the usual
> Apple II ftp sites. You'll need a link editor as one is not provided in
> the Modula2 "package" but sometimes linkGS can be found floating around
> the net. The linker in ORCA works too. Modula2 isn't C but that is both
> a good thing and a bad thing ;)

I have to make a correction to my earlier post ...The OPUS ][ includes MPW
IIgs ORCA/C not MPW IIgs C.

The MPW IIgs ORCA/C package was a later port of ORCA C 2.x from the IIgs
platform to the Mac by Mike Westerrfield.

So either version of ORCA/C should be okay. You still need the MPW IIgs
Tools 1.3 package on the Mac platform to get the linker ...etc

Glenn