Metacomco C Manual

[XorA]

Can C68 be developed more?

Technically yes, we have the source!

[XorA]

Can C68 be developed more?

Technically yes, we have the source!

If people were going to put serious effort in, finishing QL support on VBCC would probably be better. http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vbcc/

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I was looking at vbcc, a while back. As there is vasm and vlink, that would produce QDOS output.

So is possible to port vbcc to produce output that can be assembled by vasm?

[ones' complement]

Great copy of the manual Derek, very tempting to work through it. Although it appears the disk and ROM are available, do the apparent bugs in it make it worthwhile versus C68 ?

I used to be a long-time user of MCC. Bugs there were a few, but nothing that really spoiled the fun.

C68 is an old compiler. Metacomco Lattice C, in comparison is ancient, however. For anybody used to modern C programming, MCC might be (for example with its K&R instead of ANSI function declarations) a bit of a venture back to stone age. But the beast is a honest, reasonably professional compiler that has at least one advantage over C68, it can produce position-independant code, something C68 lacks a bit. And both are way above other compilers for the QL. Other than that, I would always favor C68 over MCC.

Thanks for the info, it looks worthwhile enough to have a play with (though wrong time of year now, something for the autumn evenings).

[dex]

"Your browser seems a bit outdated".

It is impossible to visit Mega.nz with latest version of TenFourFox.
Is there any other possibility to obtain Metacomco C manual PDF file?

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I tried to upload the PDF, which is 2.21Mb but the Forum software thinks it is too large, though there is a message saying a maximum file size of 10Mb

QLC.pdf

Metacomco QLC User Guide

(2.11 MiB) Downloaded 84 times

With the kind help of the QL Forum Admin Team, I have been able to upload the PDF.

Here is the Libre Office file:

QLC_Development_Kit_03-03-06.zip

Libre Office Writer file

(12.14 MiB) Downloaded 78 times

[ql_freak]

Mine also had this 2-page errata.

Mine fortunately not (98 and 99 are different and 142 and 143 are also different).

@Derek: Check your E-Mail (the one where you announced to me the sending of Q68). All 4 pages are different (CLR..., FILENO, STCI..., STCI... or so).

Regards

Peter

[Derek_Stewart]

Mine also had this 2-page errata.

Mine fortunately not (98 and 99 are different and 142 and 143 are also different).

@Derek: Check your E-Mail (the one where you announced to me the sending of Q68). All 4 pages are different (CLR..., FILENO, STCI..., STCI... or so).

Regards

Peter

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the update, I will check the scanned PDF and update the file where necessary.