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  • Basic cross compiler targeting the Apple II?

    From Jayson Smith@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 13 06:20:48 2022
    Hi,

    Okay, this is probably a silly one, but I'd love to find a cross
    compiler for some flavor of BASIC that targets the Apple II. Does such a
    thing exist?

    Thanks,

    Jayson

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  • From Mike Spangler@21:1/5 to Jayson Smith on Mon Mar 14 18:43:21 2022
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 3:20:50 AM UTC-7, Jayson Smith wrote:

    Okay, this is probably a silly one, but I'd love to find a cross
    compiler for some flavor of BASIC that targets the Apple II. Does such a thing exist?

    Z-basic?

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  • From Jayson Smith@21:1/5 to Mike Spangler on Tue Mar 15 00:58:19 2022
    Hi,

    This might look promising, except that I'm blind and use an Echo II with
    the Textalker software. I'm more interested in DOS 3.3 than ProDOS, and
    when I do a BRUN ZBASIC it loads, then nothing happens. I assume
    something's happening on the screen, but Textalker either isn't seeing
    it or it's being disabled. Resetting and doing a PR#0 does get Textalker
    back in action at an Applesoft prompt. If Z-Basic is anything other than
    a text-based program, I probably won't be able to use it.

    Jayson

    On 3/14/2022 9:43 PM, Mike Spangler wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 3:20:50 AM UTC-7, Jayson Smith wrote:

    Okay, this is probably a silly one, but I'd love to find a cross
    compiler for some flavor of BASIC that targets the Apple II. Does such a
    thing exist?

    Z-basic?


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  • From mmphosis@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 16 22:26:07 2022
    I ran ZBasic 3.0 from here:

    https://archive.org/details/ZBasic_3.0_1985-Zedcor_Inc.

    and nothing happens.

    I refresh the web page, and click "Click to Begin" again,
    but this time I press Ctrl+c while booting,
    when the "]" prompt appears,
    to BREAK out of the HELLO program, then type:

    MON C,I,O
    RUN

    The following DOS 3.3 commands appear:

    BRUN ZBASIC
    BLOAD By,A$D000
    BLOAD Version 3.0
    BLOAD Reserved

    The screen looks like it switches to 80-column mode, and goes blank,
    and again, nothing happens.

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  • From alchemist@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 17 06:57:02 2022
    Hello,
    Find this 2MG Archive Disk in my Apple II SoftWare Repository.
    This is a Prodos & Dos version of Zbasic. https://www.facebook.com/groups/a2france/posts/4552884181484068
    Hope this one could be usable for you :-)
    Best regards from France.
    Philippe

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  • From Jayson Smith@21:1/5 to mmphosis on Fri Mar 18 01:55:03 2022
    Okay, it's starting to look like ZBasic won't be usable by me at least
    under DOS 3.3. That 2MG image did work as far as it gets, in that I am
    able to issue ZBasic commands and hear disk activity, but apparently it
    loads stuff onto the language card, thus clobbering the Textalker
    software I need. If only I had a way to grab the contents of the text
    screen as emulated by MAME, or again, a text-based IIe emulator. The old
    A2 emulator I finally got working emulates only an Apple II+ with no
    80-column support so is presumably of no use to me in this situation.

    Jayson

    On 3/16/2022 6:26 PM, mmphosis wrote:
    I ran ZBasic 3.0 from here:

    https://archive.org/details/ZBasic_3.0_1985-Zedcor_Inc.

    and nothing happens.

    I refresh the web page, and click "Click to Begin" again,
    but this time I press Ctrl+c while booting,
    when the "]" prompt appears,
    to BREAK out of the HELLO program, then type:

    MON C,I,O
    RUN

    The following DOS 3.3 commands appear:

    BRUN ZBASIC
    BLOAD By,A$D000
    BLOAD Version 3.0
    BLOAD Reserved

    The screen looks like it switches to 80-column mode, and goes blank,
    and again, nothing happens.



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  • From mmphosis@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 18 21:22:11 2022
    It took some searching, but I found:

    ZBASIC_BEAGLE COMPILER.2mg

    I haven't used 2mg images much, but I was able to open it using KEGS.

    It boots PRODOS to a menu where I can choose "ZBasic 128k DOS 3.3"

    Somehow a DOS 3.3 or UNO.DOS file system is embedded within ProDOS?

    I choose "E" to Edit, and get a "ZBasic Ready" prompt in 80-column mode.

    Typing "MODE 0" puts the screen in 40 column mode.

    Typing "MODE 2" puts the screen back in 80 column mode.

    Typing "ROUTE 128" temporarily directs output to slot 1.

    From KEGS in the Serial Port Configuration, slot 1 can be set to open socket 6501. Don't forget to Mask off high bit.

    From a Terminal, I type "telnet localhost 6501", and the output from ZBasic goes to the Terminal window.

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