Re: DOS or WIN 6809 free/low cost Compiler?





vze24h5m@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Tom wrote:
> > vze24h5m@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > We are currently using an 18 year old version (3.x) of Introl-C that
> > > runs under DOS. A 6809 C compiler (+assembler,etc) is needed to
> > > maintain and update code for our 6809-based card. (And NO, I can't get
> > > our product updated to a newer CPU!) I've run into a number of
> > > compiler crashes. Sometimes the compiler complains that it has an
> > > internal error, and sometimes it hangs the PC and I'm forced to reboot!
> > > It's taken me 1/2 a day or so to work around some of the compiler
> > > problems. Apparently Introl doesn't exist anymore. Their web URL is
> > > apparently up for sale.
> >
> > We have some old DOS software that we need to run , it crashed a lot in
> > Win98 and would not run at all in 2K or XP. We've used MS Virtual PC to
> > create a virtual DOS machine and that solved our problems. You can also
> > try VMWare.
> >
> > Tom
>
> Thanks for the info about MS Virtual PC and VMWARE. We're using a PC
> running MS-DOS 6.2, the SemWare editor (advanced version of Q-edit),
> and the Introl 6809 C compiler suite v3.05. The compiler runs OK in a
> Win2K DOS box, but the batch files behave a bit differently under
> Win2K's DOS.
> -Dave Pollum

That is to be expected. Some of the DOS functions are really COM or EXE files.

They can be copied to the newer PC. Other commands are different, but you can
get to work.


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