Programming

[Rocko]

Can you program on the ST (Is it assembly?) And are there any assembly compilers (good ones) out there?

[Ayreon]

You can program on the ST series using many languages. 680xx assembler is one of them.

 

on http://www.dhs.nu/ You can find a lot of tools, including several assemblers.

On http://emulazione.multiplayer.it/stgraveyard/ You can find some pretty good tutorials (hints,tips and examples) on coding the ST.

[Albert]

I did a lot of programming on the ST a long time ago using the Mark Williams C compiler. That was tons of fun, and is actually how I learned C. As well as Emacs (well, MicroEmacs, does that count? ) I also seem to recall using GFA Basic. I never did do any 68000 programming on the ST, though.

 

..Al

[belboz]

Devpac was the assembler of choice on the ST.

 

Albert,

 

I remember MWC. I started out programming in C on the ST with it also. Worked out well because I was in college and we were programming on Unix mainframes and MWC was a pretty close setup to the Unix environment.

 

I moved from MWC to Lattice C (currently at 5.60). Love that compiler. I've heard good things about Pure C also.

[Ayreon]

Devpac surely was the most known, but from what i understand Turboassembler + Bugaboo has many advantages over Devpac but in the end it all comes down to what works the best for you. I personally have 2 left hands when it comes to programming so i can't really say

[PeteDude]

One of the cool things about the ST was the wide variety of programming languages available. Everything from BASIC to C to Smalltalk. It's a great platform to learn new programming languages on.

 

The only downside: The only object-oriented language I'm aware of on the ST is Modula. I don't think there's even a C++ available yet.

[Rocko]

What about

assembly 6502?

[+Sauron]

What about

assembly 6502?

 

You can only program systems that use a 6502 processor with 6502 assembly. If you're wanting to program on the ST, I would highly suggest you start off with learning either GFA Basic or STOS.

[krupkaj]

The only downside:  The only object-oriented language I'm aware of on the ST is Modula.  I don't think there's even a C++ available yet.

 

It is possible to use g++. Under MiNT it is without problem. But it is slow and it need lot of memory.

[Sikor]

C++ is also Pure C - it is Turbo C Version ported to Atari.

[krupkaj]

C++ is also Pure C - it is Turbo C Version ported to Atari.

I am afraid you are wrong. Pure C is only C (I know it very well ) . Although it is port of Borland's Turbo C it is older version without C++. Maybe you have mistaken it with the latest version of Pure Pascal which is object oriented.

[Wrathchild]

Hi,

 

I recently was able to build the Sozobon 2.0 compiler as a cross-compiler suite using Visual C++ (v6). Using it, I compiled the Sozobon C compiler as an Atari binary and this worked OK within an ST emulator.

 

Sozobon has its limitations but isn't a bad little compiler.

 

Regards,

 

Mark