Re: A question about programming the IIGS

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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.