Re: Apple2 - Contiki Compile Report

[Robert Steinmetz <rob@steinmetznet.com>]

Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:

> The problem is CH_ENTER which is defined as '\n' by the Contiki header files,
> but the apple2.h header file contains
>
>         #define CH_CURS_DOWN    0x0A
>
> which is the same as '\n' with the Apple2 character translation applied.
>
> One of both is probably wrong, but since I'm no apple specialist, I cannot
> tell which one.
>

Thanks, I haven't quite traced all of the code back and as I said, I still new to
cc65 and contiki, so I not up to speed on all of this. MAybe this will help some
get a little farther. I'm going to be out for a bout a week so I won't have much
time to work on it.

> > of them. My initial impression is that the cc65 libraries for the Apple2
> > are not as developed as those for the various commodore machines,
> > especially the c64.
>
> The Apple 2 library is not maintained on a regular base and there are no Apple
> users among the cc65 developers. In general, interest from the Apple 2
> community has been quite low.

I suspected as much.

> With this in mind, I would say that Apple
> support is rather good in cc65:-)

I would agree. I think the port of contiki may help support the Apple2 code and
add functionality. One area that seems ripe for additional development is RS-232
support I think that Chris Morse was looking at this.

The Apple2 is somewhat confounded by the number of versions ( ][, ][+, ][e,
//c{roms 1,2,3}, //c+, //e, //gs) and the number of hardware options.

--
Rob