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Re: Solution: MASTER SPY without covering whole screen (no other progs visible)
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:08 pm
by RalfR
We probably don't know the manufacturer of the cross-compiler, do we? For even halfway optimized code, I think XChange should be faster.
Re: Solution: MASTER SPY without covering whole screen (no other progs visible)
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:12 pm
by tofro
RalfR wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:08 pm
We probably don't know the manufacturer of the cross-compiler, do we? For even halfway optimized code, I think XChange should be faster.
Likely the Withesmiths C cross compiler for VMS. To my knowledge the first and market-leading (easy, there weren't many....) C cross compiler for 68k (and many other architectures) that ran on VMS. Luckily, the thing is downloadable from
Github today, if you happen to have a MicroVax in a closet
Re: Solution: MASTER SPY without covering whole screen (no other progs visible)
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 12:58 am
by ql_freak
AFAIK there are free versions of VMS for the PC and they hopefully have the VAX compilers (at least C and Fortran) included.
BTW: Text87 is written in C++. Fred Toussi must have developed a cross compiler that produces output for the QL. He wrote this to me in a letter long ago (<2k). This would also be nice to have (but it's compiler unfortunately does not create reentrant code, but as Text87 can load multiple files, that's not a big problem).