Re: Re: DOS3.3 program in cc65?

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"Steve Nickolas" <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:

 >It uses ProDOS, pretty sure, if it finds it.

One also wonders how a ProDOS SYS program would run if it didn't find ProDOS 
to launch it in the first place...

I have cc65 2.13.0 installed here, and my installation lists a creat 
function, and open function, and a close function in fcntl.h

But I haven't any idea what Mr. Rose has installed on his machine because 
from the way he talks he needs to write some API's to make it work. When Uz 
and Oliver were in touch and I installed cc65 back in 2009 the whole process 
including writing the code was painless and I managed to whip-off afew 
programs in a afew hours.

But clearly Oliver is one one of the experts and so is Uz so perhaps I was 
blessed.

I think it more likely that anyone of us could have done the same thing, and 
would hang their heads in shame if they couldn't, especially with all that 
heavy-duty help floating around being helpful.

More fundamentally, the question for me anyway becomes one of what I want to 
play with.

I have recently been getting more interested in doing some Apple II machine 
code and assembly programming with all the help that's available. One of my 
goals is to provide a modest set of ampersand routines for ProDOS AppleSoft 
to support some of my "pet" graphics file formats.

I would appreciate any and all links that give good info on writing these.

Also, I have visions of using the Aztec C65 cross-assembler to produce these 
things under Windows and MS-DOS.

Another little project I have in mind is to write some small sys programs in 
ML or assembly. I may just use opcodes and hand-bomb these in a hex editor. 
I just haven't spent enough time thinking about it yet.

In the meantime, I've been writing a mind-boggling assortment of utilities 
and documenting them for my AppleX 2013 update when I get time from catching 
fish which is what I have retired-to.

Back to Joseph... if asking the same old questions is what he has retired 
to, I probably should just leave him alone instead of revealing the 
top-secret mysteries of wading through mounds of excellence... the effort 
that we enjoy probably isn't for him anyway.

Bill