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The Meridian interface is more structured than you think, it's suitable for many, many, many purposes.

How do you know what I think?

However, would it be possible to implement a X-Windows server on MSX with uzix? It would be funny to use a MSX as X-Terminal.

AFAIK X needs pretty high bandwidth, so that may be bottleneck...

Wasn't there a low bandwidth version named LBX, meant for use over modem-connections? Haven't heard of it much, but I don't follow the unix news that close. With the sunrise ethernet card it should be possible anyway, using the ez80 as co-processor.

>Why wasn't WiOSgood enough?

For a few reasons:
Fixed resolution (only 512*212 * 16bit colors)
It's to slow and most msx coders don't code in C

I personally think that C is cool and powerful language, and of course, easier to learn than ASM. But I heard that MSX has a great lack of C compilers and libraries. Could someone tell me the best C compiler for MSX? (I supose that it is Hitech-C) And the libraries?

Maybe ASCII C. Dunno. I never used a C compiler on msx. WiOS forces you to use the ASCII version AFAIK.

Was not Hitech C the best?

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I personally think that C is cool and powerful language, and of course, easier to learn than ASM. But I heard that MSX has a great lack of C compilers and libraries. Could someone tell me the best C compiler for MSX? (I supose that it is Hitech-C) And the libraries?

I'm using Hi-Tech C compiler. I very much prefer to program in C on MSX But I'd like a good GFX9000 lib

Together with Eric Boon we use the CP/M Hi-Tech C compiler, in combination with gcc, make, wrdsk and openMSX to develop some software for MSX on a Linux system. Works pretty good!

IIRC, ASCII-C is more like K&R C.

void main(void)
int i;
{
/* function */
}

like that, in stead of

void main() {
int i;
/* function */
}

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I'm using Hi-Tech C compiler. I very much prefer to program in C on MSX But I'd like a good GFX9000 lib Together with Eric Boon we use the CP/M Hi-Tech C compiler, in combination with gcc, make, wrdsk and openMSX to develop some software for MSX on a Linux system. Works pretty good!

Nice, but what about the libs? (standard libs, vdp, sound, etc...)

Does anybody know of a real C (cross?) compiler on/for Z80? Or even a C++ compiler?

There's SDCC (ANSI-C compatible).
Homepage: http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
MSX port: http://www.emucamp.com/boukichi/

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There is a lot of C-Compilers for z80, but they aren't free . Z80 is very used in tiny aplications today. You only have to search C Compilers z80 in the web ...

Thanks 8)

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IIRC, ASCII-C is more like K&R C.

Yes it is, however your example is a bit confusing, I think this is more clear:

void main(int argc,char* argv[])
{
int local1;
int local2;
/* let's do it */
}

would be written as:

void main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char* argv[];
{
int local1;
int local2;
/* let's do it */
}