Hi Maurice!

12 Feb 2017 16:46, from Maurice Kinal -> Alexander Suvorov:

 MK> However I would be surprised and probably impressed to see one in use
 MK> for fidonet messaging especially a working C64 without it having a
 MK> machine to take care of the shortcomings.

You have 64K of RAM.
By default many regions are overlayed with kernal and BASIC ROMs and by I/O
space.
Also the default mass storage medium (5.25 inch disks) has only around 170 KB
storage space.

 MK> Offhand I'd imagine that one would need a regular PC with something
 MK> like yasm to write 8 bit assembly to take care of writing software for
 MK> a C64 if needed.

There is also a C cross compiler for it:
http://cc65.github.io/cc65/

There are also some IDEs like this for example:
https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/C64_Studio

CU, Ricsi

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