Originally posted by: kelvin@arizona.UUCP (Kelvin Nilsen)
Message-ID: <16830@arizona.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 01:01:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: arizona.16830
Posted: Fri Oct 26 01:01:27 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Oct-84 04:32:55 EDT
Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson
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I have written a vt100 emulator for the IBM PC which I package with
xmodem and kermit file transfer capabilities. Most of the program
is written in C and I am selling it at the nominal cost of $35 which
includes almost 50 pages of documentation.
Recently, a local software "promoter" approached me with the idea of
porting my program to the Commodore 64. He assures me that we'd sell
millions of them.
I am very naive about the Commodore line in general, not even knowing
what their favorite processor is. I'm interested to know if
o there's a demand for a good vt100 emulator, and what
people would be willing to pay for it.
o there are any good C compilers for the 64, and if there
exist cross compilers from something like an IBM PC.
o Commodore publishes enough information to write, for example,
asynchronous port drivers and interrupt handlers
(Can the 64 even be interrupt driven?)
o Any other information that might be of interest to me.
Thanks in advance for your responses.