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"Steve Nickolas" <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
>A few years, a few servers down the road, you know... Reuploaded to 
>http://1.buric.co/eh210p8_v087ref1.zip

Got it, thanks uso,

I'll have a look at what you have done with the 65816 in your code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65816

Also I was totally unaware of the "Enhanced BASIC" project. Thanks also for 
making me aware of EHBASIC.

A google on "EHBASIC Lee Davison" turns-up many broken links. Additionally 
there is no Wikipedia article about EHBASIC which seems rather sad to me 
considering the amount of activity this project seems to have invoked by 
retro-programmers.

There seems to be a lesson here. As critical as I am about cc65 having gaps 
in Apple II support including "how-to" documentation, compared to cc65, 
EHBASIC would seem to be more of a programming project than something that a 
nostalgic user who uses a BASIC like AppleSoft would think of using. I 
backread some of the threads and I am unable to come to any other 
conclusion. Without mainstream references like Wikipedia, and links that are 
not broken, even old established language tools like Aztec C65 would not 
have generated much interest.

If you doubt me, google Apple II C Compiler or Apple II C Programming.

cc65 is well established and referenceable by anyone wanting a C compiler 
for the Apple II or Commodore 64, and so is Aztec C65 to a smaller degree 
which is the exact opposite of the EHBASIC stuff.

Anyone googling Apple BASIC will be overwhelmed by AppleSoft and anyone 
googling Commodore BASIC will be overwhelmed by (ahem) Commodore BASIC.

It is sad to see a less-than-lame effort in cohesive documentation at 
general and stable sites on the part of those who would want EHBASIC to be 
be used mainsteam as a replacement BASIC outside an elite group; this seems 
to be more of a programming project than something that a nostalgic user who 
uses a BASIC would bother with. So my overall conslusion is that nobody 
cares if this gets used mainstream.

This is certainly the opposite of cc65.

I appreciated the description below (edited somewhat):

https://github.com/jefftranter/6502/tree/master/asm/ehbasic

Enhanced BASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the 6502 family microprocessors. 
It is constructed to be quick and powerful and easily ported between 6502 
systems. It requires few resources to run and includes instructions to 
facilitate easy low level handling of hardware devices. It also retains most 
of the powerful high level instructions from similar BASICs.

EhBASIC is free but not copyright free. For non commercial use there is only 
one restriction, any derivative work should include, in any binary image 
distributed, the string "Derived from EhBASIC" and in any distribution that 
includes human readable files a file that includes the above string in a 
human readable form e.g. not as a comment in an HTML file. For commercial 
use you must contact Lee Davison.

One wonders; Why did Lee Davison not write a Wikipedia Page at the very 
least? (a rhetorical question) This seems to be a remarkable accomplishment 
that should be shared. Too bad. If I did something like this, like I say, 
I'd make sure it was visibly available.

If you doubt me, google Apple II C Compiler or Apple II C Programming.

The other thing is this restriction. These days there is no restriction on 
AppleSoft BASIC etc. How silly it is that this guy would put a restriction 
on a 6502 BASIC interpreter!

I'm going back to cc65-land now.

Bill 

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How configure cc65 on a pc Didier VALLET <dv.vallet@gmail.com> - 2014-08-01 22:51 -0700
  Re: How configure cc65 on a pc "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-08-02 06:48 -0500
  Re: How configure cc65 on a pc "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-08-02 08:22 -0500
    Re: How configure cc65 on a pc Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2014-08-02 15:53 +0000
      Re: How configure cc65 on a pc "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-08-02 19:50 -0500
        Re: How configure cc65 on a pc Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2014-08-03 02:27 +0000
          Re: How configure cc65 on a pc "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-08-03 08:42 -0500
            Re: How configure cc65 on a pc Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2014-08-03 13:51 +0000
              Re: How configure cc65 on a pc "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-08-03 16:20 -0500
  Re: How configure cc65 on a pc STYNX <Jonas.Groenhagen@gmx.de> - 2014-08-02 08:11 -0700
    Re: How configure cc65 on a pc "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-08-02 19:37 -0500

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