[Coco] Re: CoCo needs?

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Mar 8, 2005, at 1:45 PM, James Dessart wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jim Cox wrote:
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>> Let's face it, we are much smaller than the Apple II, Commodore, and
>> even Atari communities and we are getting smallers. I agree with you
>> that we need more people developing software, but given our size, how
>> do we encourage that growth.
>
> A working, modern-machine-hosted C compiler. :) Easier said than done, 
> of
> course. That's, as far as I'm concerned, the only thing holding back 
> CoCo
> software development. As much work as it is to learn C, assembly's even
> harder.
>
I would agree, and here's what I'm doing about it:

As time allows, I am starting to adapt the sdcc (sdcc.sf.net) compiler 
to the 6809.  There is some work to do, but starting from the existing 
hc08 code, it isn't that much of a leap.  I'm waiting to hear back from 
one of the guys on the project about starting an "m09" support branch 
on the project.  If I can get approval, then I'll check in what I have 
and development can start.

This may or may not be the best tool chain to adapt to, but it's a 
start.  Frankly, I'm skeptical as to who will take up the slack here.  
We'll see.

Onward and upward.

Boisy


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