Hello Maurice!   
      
   08 Sep 2018 21:43, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
      
    BP>> will it run all c64 basic programs with peek and pokes ?   
      
    MK> Send some example code and I'll give it a try.   
      
   my consern is more or less does it allow to write new bios ? :)   
      
    MK> All I know for sure is    
    MK> that hello.bas compiles without any grief and is a pure 64-bit    
    MK> executable on the x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu host where gcc-8.2.0    
    MK> bootstrapped it.   
      
   so far so good, i think its possible not all basic commands that are   
   implemented in freebasic ?   
      
   if so how to expand it ?   
      
    MK> I haven't run across any documentation that    
    MK> discusses compatibilty yet ... other than the qbasic quote Little    
    MK> Mikey posted in this echo.   
      
   i remember only qbasic from my old time when i got a wife :)   
      
    BP>> will it do all commodore 128d basic programs with mmu and 1024k   
    BP>> free mem ?   
      
    MK> I don't know.  My best guess is that it doesn't matter.   
      
   so basic 7.0 with 1GB of mem is possible ? :)   
      
   the real thing is 16bit address bus with mean 1024K ram on commodore 128 is   
   possible, i have a 512k ram expander   
      
   so i see the fame 640k haha   
      
    MK> I didn't see    
    MK> commodore portabilty listed anywhere.   
      
   so its undokumented and not working :*&   
      
    MK> I did notice that freebasic can    
    MK> be ported to win32, win64 and dos, as well as to linux and bsd.   
      
   good thats atleast a start   
      
    MK> I managed to get it working as a pure 64-bit linux without too much    
    MK> grief.   
      
   good   
      
    MK> How about you?   
      
   not tryed yet :)   
      
    BP>> google unicomal and ibm   
      
    MK> See http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/opencomal as well as the    
    MK> pure linux port at https://github.com/poldy/OpenCOMAL.   
      
   this is what i like to build with one more vps in linode.com   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
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