Hi all, On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Per Olofsson <magervalp@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Markus Stehr <bastetfurry@ircnet.de> wrote: > > Just curious, could one use that from BASIC with a bunch of POKEs and > > SYSes, as BASIC being the C64s scripting language? > > http://lyonlabs.org/commodore/kb-bob/index.html > > A port to cc65 would be pretty sweet. Jonno has gone one further and published an API spec. for accessing the Kipper BASIC core routines via assembly. I'm not 100% clear on whether the Kipper BASIC cartridge implements this API as well as providing the BASIC extensions, but I think that's the idea. The document is here: http://netboot65.sourceforge.net/kipper_api_technical_reference.doc It wouldn't be difficult to provide cc65-ready wrapper functions around the API calls, but it does require that the end user have the API in cartridge form. However, the nice thing about the API abstraction is that it should be pretty easy to come up with a disk-loadable run-time of the API. A version that sat mostly under ROM could leave a lot more memory avaliable. Alternately, an ip65 library for static linking into cc65 apps would be great, but it does not deal with hardware independence quite as well. There's more info out there, which is not really linked together all that well, but I've turned up some useful links that I'll share here. Jonno's post in retrohackers forum: http://retrohackers.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=540 The NetBoot65 project on sourceforge. This is actually where the Kipper API document is found. NetBoot is based on the IP65 stack and lets you boot your C64 from a network or internet location. http://netboot65.sourceforge.net/ The IP65 project itself, on sourceforge. Very few links out of this page... http://ip65.sourceforge.net/ Jonno's website, with some additional info. and interesting blog posts: http://www.jamtronix.com/blog/ // Agent Friday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Mon Nov 8 06:28:52 2010
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