Re: cc65 for Apple 2?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Scott Alfter wrote:
> In article <c283ecb8-9b10-4ba0-9b34-fe3c53f12fd9@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
> Harry Potter  <maspethrose7@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I have cc65 and some Win32-based Apple 2 emulators and am wondering
> > how to create Apple 2 programs for the Apple 2.  I am more of a
> > Commodore person, but I find the graphics modes funny and am
> > interested in exploring Apple 2 programming.  What do I need to know?
>
>
> The biggest gotcha with the binaries generated by cc65 is that they have a
> header tacked on at the beginning that interferes with proper loading.  It's
> four bytes, with the load address and length.  Something like this command
> sequence will extract the header info:
>
> BLOAD FOO,A$800,L4,T$00
> PRINT PEEK(2049)*256+PEEK(2048)" "PEEK(2051)*256+PEEK(2050)
>
> With the header information extracted, you can rewrite the file in the
> proper format: ([X] is the load address, [Y] is the length) 

Sounds like a DOS binary file without the "BIN" type.

If you just copy the entire image to a DOS disk image and
then re-type it as "BIN", doesn't that do the job?

-michael

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