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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: C compiler, question on Apple II graphics
Message-ID: <12452@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Mar 90 07:51:08 GMT
References: <49732c8f.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <49732c8f.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> ross@apollo.HP.COM (Mike Ross) writes:
>... I've heard complaints
>that there are no good C compilers out there
>for Apple II or Apple II GS systems.
>Question: How many people are interested
>in a reasonable ANSI C compiler for Apple II
>systems? What would you pay for it? 

I'd pay for it about what I did pay for it: $150.  Even $300 is not
excessive for a first-rate software development environment,
which needs to include MUCH more than just a compiler (even if you
take "ANSI C compiler" to actually mean "standard conforming
implementation for a hosted environment", which includes the standard
library).  Debugging, editing, and access to the IIGS ToolBox are also
essential.

By the way, I don't think it's worth worrying about the 8-bit Apples,
apart from possibly selling software to folks who still use them.
I had both available for several months and found I never had any
reason to want to use my old Apple //e instead of the IIGS.  (Well,
actually there were a couple of copy-protected games that didn't work
with the IIGS, but that's not pertinent.)

ORCA/C will be just about ideal when the bugs that plagued Release
1.0 are fixed.  Then it would certainly qualify as a "reasonable
ANSI C compiler" for the IIGS.