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From: bbs00068@uafcseg.uucp (Joel Kolstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: What to do with my old C-64...
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Date: 18 Aug 90 01:41:03 GMT
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Hi.  I used to be a C-64 hacker.  Then I discovered Amigas... However, I still
have my 64 around, and am wondering what to do with it.  Among other things,
I've kind of decided to use it as a terminal and an EPROM/8748/8751/etc.
programmer...

So, first off, I'm looking for a good terminal program.  I saw somebody's 
question similiar to this a few questions back, and I went off to the Milton
site and grabbed it.  Now I just have to get it from the Amiga to the 64...
(Hello, 64 Emulater! :-) ).  Here's my wish list... protocols: ZModem.  Really.
That's all I need.  Is Punter still popular?  If I can't have ZModem, at least
give me YModem.  XModem? 

Terminal emulations: Dumb stupid, VT100.  It'd be nice if the VT100 were in
80 columns (yeah, I know the characters look bad and that they're only 4 
pixels wide).

Buffers: >10K is reasonable, and I want to be able to capture something to 
_disk_. 

That's about it for the terminal program.  The other thing I'd like to know
about is C compilers for the 64.  I don't really plan to develop many more
programs on the 64, just port some of my MS-DOS/Amiga C ones to it (yes,
the ones I want to port are written in generic C).  I've heard of two 
compilers -- Power C, by Spinnaker, and Super C by Abacus.  Spinnaker seems
to have discontinued Power C, correct?  WHERE CAN I GET IT!?!?!  
(Hint, hint, anybody want to sell theirs!?) I have heard
that Power C is much better that Super C because it uses standard SEQ files
instead of USR files, produces results that need not be run from it's shell,
and also has a much more powerful linker.  (Is a make utility too much to
ask for?)

The only bad thing I've heard about it is that it doesn't already have
graphics functions in it.  I have my own assembly graphics routines from
"the good 'ol days," and I ought to just be able to link them in similiar
to what I do with the Amiga and the IBM, RIGHT???

I'm still open to comments about these C's, as well as any others that
people know about.  Do the C compilers come with editors?  How good are
they?

I appreciate anybody who can help me out.  Please reply to 
kolstad@cae.wisc.edu.  The address this was posted from *WILL* bounce.

						---Joel Kolstad
						kolstad@cae.wisc.edu