MaxCoderz

Posted: **Mon 31 Dec, 2007 3:11 am**

Simplest way to get it working is to extract the z88dk to some directory, then navigate to the bin sub directory and create a file called 'hello.c' which would contain:

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#pragma string name Hello World
#pragma data icon 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00;

#include <stdio.h>

main() {
	// print string
	printf("Hello World!");

	// wait for keypress
	while( getk() == 0 ) {
	}
}

Save it and you would compile it from the command line like this:

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zcc +ti8xansi -startup=1 -o hello.bin hello.c

Then you would use a program like 'devpac8x.com' to link it:

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devpac8x hello

You should now have an 83+/84+ Ion compatible program that will display 'Hello World!', wait for a keypress and then exit.

Setting up your environment vars properly would make things easier of course.

Posted: **Mon 31 Dec, 2007 3:46 am**

Thanks tr1p.

Sweet, hello world in 3,402 bytes.

Just wondering... If I call a function with parameters, and I want to retrieve them in assembly language, how would I do that? Are they on the stack?

Posted: **Mon 31 Dec, 2007 10:41 am**

cjgone wrote:Sweet, hello world in 3,402 bytes.

WTF?!? 3,402 bytes? ROFL it probabely never heard of B_CALL()s... It probabely stores its own font as well

Posted: **Mon 31 Dec, 2007 5:01 pm**

that is kinda a lot... O.o

Posted: **Mon 31 Dec, 2007 7:40 pm**

The culprit must be the printf() function, which is infamous for its size. It must be avoided at all costs.

Posted: **Mon 31 Dec, 2007 10:27 pm**

Luckily, that wasn't the "optimized" version.

(Yup, it uses its own font

)

MaxCoderz

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