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Re: Quite C and BrickOS (WAS: Re: Steve H, C$, me learning C Brick OS)
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:48:35 GMT
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Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote:
> > ok, back to what is C
> >
> > so if I take an example helloworld.c file from a demo section of my current
> > nightmare (brickos)
>
> Well, the general syntax and structure of C are the same. But how you call the
> motors, sensors and other hardware is different from platform to platform,
> unless someone deliberately tried to make them all common, which I'm not sure.
>
> Think of it like this. On your C64, programs that said:
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> 10 PRINT "CHRIS IS THE BEST"
> 20 GOTO 10
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> worked exactly the same way on the Apple II or another computer, because print
> and goto are generic BASIC tokens for almost all platforms.
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> But if you had a program that was like:
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> 10 PRINT "CHRIS IS THE BEST"
> 15 POKE 53280,6
> 20 GOTO 10
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> where line 15 changes the border colour on the display, this won't port clean to
> the Apple II, because that poke calls specific hardware (the 64's VIC graphics
> chip) in a specific way.
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> How Quite C and legOS do non generic stuff would be part of the porting
> exercise. I don't think is is nontrivial.
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> Calum
wow calum, I take back some of those nasty things i said about you to the reporter
at dinner.
your 64 example explained it very well.
thanks.
so based on what calum said, I wont even bother trying to install QC. cause my
marble prg might not work.
Chris
There's no 'I' in 'team'. There's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'.
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