Hello Maurice!

08 Sep 2018 21:43, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:


 BP>> will it run all c64 basic programs with peek and pokes ?

 MK> Send some example code and I'll give it a try.

my consern is more or less does it allow to write new bios ? :)

 MK> All I know for sure is 
 MK> that hello.bas compiles without any grief and is a pure 64-bit 
 MK> executable on the x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu host where gcc-8.2.0 
 MK> bootstrapped it.

so far so good, i think its possible not all basic commands that are 
implemented in freebasic ?

if so how to expand it ?

 MK> I haven't run across any documentation that 
 MK> discusses compatibilty yet ... other than the qbasic quote Little 
 MK> Mikey posted in this echo.

i remember only qbasic from my old time when i got a wife :)

 BP>> will it do all commodore 128d basic programs with mmu and 1024k
 BP>> free mem ?

 MK> I don't know.  My best guess is that it doesn't matter.

so basic 7.0 with 1GB of mem is possible ? :)

the real thing is 16bit address bus with mean 1024K ram on commodore 128 is 
possible, i have a 512k ram expander

so i see the fame 640k haha

 MK> I didn't see 
 MK> commodore portabilty listed anywhere.

so its undokumented and not working :*&

 MK> I did notice that freebasic can 
 MK> be ported to win32, win64 and dos, as well as to linux and bsd.

good thats atleast a start

 MK> I managed to get it working as a pure 64-bit linux without too much 
 MK> grief.

good

 MK> How about you?

not tryed yet :)

 BP>> google unicomal and ibm

 MK> See http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/opencomal as well as the 
 MK> pure linux port at https://github.com/poldy/OpenCOMAL.

this is what i like to build with one more vps in linode.com


 Regards Benny

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