Commander X16

Thanks Stefan - that’s very clear, and good to know.

I’ll go with your recommendation and stick with accessing the source code file from disk!

Hi The excellent built in text editor in the ROM is, well, excellent! I want to have my assembler and my pascal compiler be able to access and process the file that the text editor has got loaded. Where do I find the details of where this text file is stored? I need the RAM bank and starting address...

I may have missed it, but some basic conditional compilation features would be handy, with access perhaps to the command line so that nxtBasic yourprogram.bas -debug true can be accessed via something like #IF CLI_DEBUG ... conditional source code #ELSE ... some other conditional source code #ENDIF ...

Great stuff - much appreciated. I'm half way through editing my source code to have 1 statement per line and the multi-line IF-THEN-END IF structure everywhere, so I'll continue. I think it will make for more readable and maintainable code as I plan to add multi data type support to the pCode instru...

Fantastic! I'm very excited by this project. My first project with it is to convert (and refactor!) my Tiny Pascal pCode interpreter with it, so that it runs as a native machine code program on the CX16. I imagine some time is needed for the documentation to catchup to the latest version? Is there a...

TomXP411 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 12:06 am https://github.com/X16Community/x16-doc ... cartridges

It's in a less-than-obvious place... we could probably call that out in a better spot in the manual.

Perfect - thank you!

Apologies if this is already covered somewhere else - use of the search function didn’t reveal usable information for me…

… what is the mechanism for auto detecting and then running the code on a cartridge?

This is great if you wish to fork and recompile the ROM. Is there a vector available to add "soft" changes? I know there were numerous "wedges" that did this on the C64, but it would be nice if we could design in from the beginning an interface to just hook a vector to extend BA...

Is there a short list of preferred or ideal assembler tools to use for developing machine language programs for the X16? I don't mind if they are cross assemblers and IDEs running on Windows, Linux or MacOS, or if they are native and running on the X16 itself. My own assembler, written in Basic, is ...

I've just put my DEV unit, #71, into this case I got for under $40 from Amazon. It fits very nicely. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0785GRMPG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 I also bought a 450W which was about $25 I think. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077BQ76TP?psc=1&ref=pp...