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Re: What do you use your Apple for?
- Subject: Re: What do you use your Apple for?
- From: datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:35:19 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 15, 8:12 am, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> Just another survey thread, since I'm thinking about writing some sort of
> Operating System for the Apple II, and I want it to be useful and something
> that people would actually use.
>
> So, what do you typically do with your Apple?
Fun. I like to port/write cc65 C and Aztec C (6502 and Z80) programs,
mostly benchmarks. E.g compute Pi (Machin arctan) to 1000 digits.
Performance for base 65536 in seconds:
cc65:1514
Aztec C:2180
Aztec C/4MHz Z80:2572
MAF FORTH:1496
However nothing comes close to base 256 assembly: 194. When I have
time for more "fun" I'll recode all the base 65536 programs in base
256 and rerun.