[PLUG] C64 emulator ... was (ancient) .BAS file with linux

[Ben Koenig]

It wants to open a new window because thats what freeglut is for. Are you printing "Hello, World" to stdout or an opengl texture?

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On Jul 13, 2021, 11:44 AM, Robert Citek wrote:

> Just for fun, I tried to get the gb64 compiler to run. But it's not
> outputting "Hello, world!"
> Here's what I am doing on Ubuntu 20.04:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install -y wget less tree g++ libgl-dev libglu1-mesa
> libglu1-mesa-dev vim
> cd /tmp/
> wget
> https://github.com/QB64Team/qb64/releases/download/v1.5/qb64_1.5_lnx.tar.gz
> tar -xzvf qb64_1.5_lnx.tar.gz
> cd qb64/
> cat <<'eof' > hw.bas
> 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
> eof
> ./qb64 -x hw.bas
> ./hw
>
> The output I get looks like this:
>
> QB64 Compiler V1.5
>
> Beginning C++ output from QB64 code...
> [..................................................] 100%
>
> Compiling C++ code into executable...
> Output: hw
> freeglut (./hw):
>
> It seems intent on opening a new window. Oh, well. Just thought I'd post
> my results.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 10:40 AM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 08:01:19PM -0700, Nat Taylor wrote:
>> > https://www.qb64.org/portal/
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:51 PM Nat Taylor <bioborg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ... Or a C64 emulator (here
>> > is an online one: https://c64online.com/c64-online-emulator/ )
>>
>> Those may be very useful - I have a bunch of old Commodore
>> PET cassettes and an old dual cassette-to-GPIB peripheral.
>> Also a modded Commodore PET serial number 8, which isn't
>> working right now, but I could fix if I had the time.
>>
>> I also have a stack of Commodore PET engineering blueprints
>> (real blue-on-white D size Diazo copies with red confidential
>> notices stamped on them) for that ancient personal computer.
>>
>> Long story omitted.
>>
>> Microsoft BASIC, used on the 6502-based Commodore PET and
>> C64, used the same BASIC bytecodes as other computers using
>> Microsoft BASIC (like BASIC for CPM 8080). A few machine-
>> dependent differences for peripheral IO. The binaries
>> for the different CPUs were different, of course.
>>
>> Apple BASIC is a different lineage, written by Steve
>> Wosniak, and used a different set of binary bytecodes.
>>
>> The Tandy TRS-80 was yet another lineage.
>>
>> Back in the mists of time, one of my side-business projects
>> was "Little Big Disk", an 8 inch Shugart floppy drive (CPM
>> compatible) with a Commodore-PET compatible GPIB connector.
>> It performed the slight translation needed to interchange
>> M$ 8080 CPM BASIC with M$ 6502 Commodore PET BASIC.
>>
>> How did I learn how to do this? That is another long
>> story, which I hesitate to write because Bill Gates
>> may still be as insanely pissed off as he was in 1977.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> P.S. It is amusing that in the late 70s, "64" was Kbytes
>> of RAM (16 bit address space), rather than a binary word
>> length. Now with 64 bit words, a 64 bit address space is
>> theoretically possible, but there aren't any 20 exaword
>> machine memories yet.
>>
>> --
>> Keith Lofstrom keithl at keithl.com
>>