[Coco] CMOC 0.1.53 is out

[Brendan Donahe]

Great news, Pierre!  Thanks for continuing to add library support for my
favorite CoCo C compiler.

Brendan

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:30 PM Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sarrazip.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have just published version 0.1.53 of CMOC, a 6809-targeting
> cross-compiler for a large subset of the C language. Here are the
> recent developments.
>
> Aside from a few bug fixes, I have added functions pmode() and screen()
> to CMOC's "standard" library, to simplify the transition from Basic.
>
> Also to that end, I have published the "bgraph" library, which offers
> a function that acts like most of Basic's DRAW command and another
> function that is similar to PAINT.  The "Drawer" object can be used
> the following way, for example in PMODE 4 graphics:
>
>     pmode(4, 0x0E00);  /* PMODE 4 in the default 6k buffer */
>     pcls(0);  /* clear screen with byte 0 */
>     screen(1, 1);
>
>     Drawer drawer;
>     Drawer_initForPMODE(&drawer, 0x0E00, 4);
>     Drawer_draw(&drawer, "U20R35D20L35");
>
> The Drawer structure can be used in all five PMODEs.  I have also made
> it work with the HSCREEN 2 mode on the CoCo 3 as well as with the 64x64
> and 128x64 modes of the CoCo 1 and 2. The bgraph.c program demonstrates
> this as well as the "Painter" object and a line-drawing function.
>
> Yet another new development is "cc3dblb", a CoCo 3 double buffering
> demo in C (with some inline assembly).
>
> This demo is where I tested Drawer_initForHSCREEN() and Drawer_draw()
> in the HSCREEN 2 (320x160x16) mode.
>
> cc3dblb depends on "bgraph", but also on the "cardgame" library,
> which despite its dubious name, can be used for graphics other than
> a card game like Color Eights (http://sarrazip.com/dev/color8.html).
> This library facilitates creating a graphical program and it comes
> with an 8x8 font that can be used to write on a 32x24 grid in a PMODE
> 4 screen, or a 40x24 grid in an HSCREEN 2 screen.
>
> These libraries ("bgraph", "cc3dblb" and "cardgame") are in the public
> domain, while CMOC is distributed under the GNU GPL version 3.
>
> For details: http://sarrazip.com/dev/cmoc.html
>
> --
> Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip @ sarrazip . com>
>
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