Re: Cross Development Software - Aztec C Shell Programming for DOS 3.3

[Bill Buckels <bbuckels@escape.ca>]

On Jan 7, 8:20 am, wrodiger <wrodi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any thoughts on how this compares to cc65?
>
> Will

cc65??? The comparison is the other way around isn't it?

Well anyway, since you asked, cc65 is a relative newcomer to the Apple
II by comparison to Aztec C and offers nothing like the Aztec C Apple
II native shell environment.

Those are my first two thoughts.

When I was developing in Aztec C in the 1980's was cc65 even a twinkle
anyone's eye? That's part of the first two thoughts.

Aztec C has features under DOS 3.3 not available in cc65 including
FILE I/O and also cc65 does not support streaming to a printer device
on the Apple II and Aztec C does.

Aztec C offers command line args in the shell version and Aztec C
supports redirection and filters in the Aztec C Shell which cc65 can't
since it does not have a shell.

That's another thought or several.

Bill

PS - cc65 is a modern compiler under active development and produces
programs that are faster than those produced by Aztec C from my
experience.