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Re: Poll: Who works for the Semiconductor industry?



BluPhoenyx wrote:
 To: William Garber
William Garber wrote:

: >
: > Sadly, these are the only choices available in C on the 8 bit II. Orca
: > offers more features at the cost of requiring a GS. At least the
: > functionality is available, it just means that porting the code would be
: > difficult.
:
: It's a shame that HyperC source isn't available-
: -this would be a good tool for bootstrapping a
: real FP version.

I believe it is, just not sure where I heard it.


This would be a great find. I recall years ago reading that someone had this but hadn't uploaded it anywhere. After that, I never found any mention of this again. I would also like to find the source for it's CDOS shell/OS version, curiosity mostly.

I'm sure that with work and determination, it could be reverse engineered but with the mixed 6502 and internal byte code it would certainly be a large task. I expect it would require several dedicated individuals at least. Still, there is an exceptional amount of documentation available including how the assemblers function and even a simple optimizer.

Any ideas, interested parties?

One addition I would like to see would be a 128k version.

I agree--that is at least as important as FP in my book...

-michael

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