Wanted: Apple ][ Card Info

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Sun Mar 22 15:12:30 1998

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, kroma wrote:

> >>pocket rocket is applied engineering's equivalent to apple's language
> card.
>
> >OK... could it allow for me to write in C? (Or any other languages in
> >particular) What are the chances of finding another 64K RAM upgrade to
> >boost it to the max 128KB?
>
> They were called "Language Cards" because you could switch between Applesoft
> and Integer Basic. It never had anything to do with any other programming
> language. If you want to program in C, try Hyper C from ground at
> ftp://liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu/8/ground/apple2/apple8/Languages/Hyperc

A language card was also required to run UCSD Pascal (which required 64K).

Another C compiler you may want to drive yourself insane with is Aztec C.
Quite possibly the worst C implementation ever, it took me almost 2
minutes to compile a "Hello World" program. I quickly went back to BASIC
and machine language.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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