Credits
- Code — NoRecess
- Engine — Small-C, by Ron Cain
Credits as they appear in the release.
PhrozenC is a C compiler based on original SmallC K&R compiler (1981 !). I added some minor features such as using #include option or tweaking memory usage. Also made a version running on a real CPC (file-based/ROM version) !
Small-C was written by Ron Cain in 1980, for the CP/M machines of the day — which includes the Amstrad CPC. Early in 2010 I came across its source again, compiled it for the PC, and found it remarkably small in memory. For the fun of it, as with most projects, I tried a real CPC port. It did not work as expected at first; it took a good many headaches before it did.
What it does is simple enough: it turns a C file and everything it includes into a single assembly source, ready for Arnor’s Maxam or Richard Wilson’s WinAPE. It compiles in a single pass, so it never has to hold the whole program in memory at once.
The versions
- Windows — a stand-alone command-line program.
- CPC 464 / 464+ — a stand-alone program that uses the entire memory of the machine, destroying whatever was there before. Released for compatibility, and not the version to reach for.
- CPC 6128 / 6128+ — driven through an RSX, using the extra 64K to hold the compiler compressed and to leave the first 64K as it was.
- CPC 6128 / 6128+, ROM — an RSX again, using the upper 48K (banks C5, C6 and C7) while leaving resident memory and bank C4 untouched. This is the one to use alongside the Arnor ROMs — Protext, Maxam and Promerge.
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