Re: cc65 for Apple 2?

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <mt-dnYFh8uiszZzVnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>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 by "DOS" you mean "DOS 3.3," I wouldn't know...last time I did anything
semi-serious with DOS 3.3 would've been over 20 years ago.  I don't recall
binary files having any sort of header under DOS 3.3, but my memory could be
faulty.  They definitely don't have a header under ProDOS, which is all that
I use...all of the necessary metadata gets stored in the directory entry.

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>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?
>
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