Re: You guys are NUTS !

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	You feel ORCA, all the way around, is the best??  I've got ORCA/M macro
assembler, and several books say that Merlin 16 is "easier" to get into.
 I can't seem to see more than very slight differences in the
complexity.  I have decided that the IIgs isthe last machine I would
possibly get into asm (little programs done totally in asm--not just
in-line), so I've gotten 3 65C816 asm references and, happily, all
Apple's IIgs programing references (hardware ref, toolbox refs (all 3),
firmware ref, etc.).  My goal is to do a little demo or two (a very much
more modest version of the sort of thing that FTA or Mister Z put out). 
I so loved asm on the x86 back on a '286 in college when I coded an "AI"
driven 2-machine (serial link) computer vs. computer BattleShip game. 
So fine.  GS asm, compared to say modern x86 or PowerPC, is such a dream.

	I guess ORCA/M is the platform to use for that.


bp

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> "Outsider" <shinlee@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> 
> >Thanks I'll look into it. I am really into that stuff.
> >The only thing is that I am familiar with C++ and assembly (but I hate
> >assembly !).
> >
> >Any good C compilers out there ?
> 
> Try http://www.byteworks.org/ ByteWorks.  They make the
> Orca/C programming language.  It is an ANSI C but you
> have complete access to the Apple's Toolbox to build your
> GUI programs with.
> 
> The Orca series of languages are the best Apple II languages.

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