GSTC Compiler

[tjb]

Anybody know anything about this compiler or where I might find a copy for sale? It's supposed to simplify GEM, AES, and VDI programming. I ran across an ad for it in the Antic Catalog this evening.

 

tjb

Edited August 19, 2009 by tjb

[lp060]

Never heard of "GSTC Compiler", but perhaps you meant GST 'C' Compiler? If so that one is pretty old, well what isn't in Atari land? Anyway, one that is less old is PureC. Seems to be fairly popular. Find it at:

 

http://www.reservoir-gods.com/source.htm

Edited August 19, 2009 by lp060

[tjb]

It's listed as GTSC FWIW. They also list GST-ASM. I had never heard of them either (before seeing the ad). Thanks for the link BTW.

 

tjb

[edward1469]

It's listed as GTSC FWIW. They also list GST-ASM. I had never heard of them either (before seeing the ad). Thanks for the link BTW.

 

tjb

I have the manual for the thing but lost the software many many moons ago

Ed

[tjb]

It's listed as GTSC FWIW. They also list GST-ASM. I had never heard of them either (before seeing the ad). Thanks for the link BTW.

 

tjb

I have the manual for the thing but lost the software many many moons ago

Ed

 

Cool! Do you have any experience with it? Was it a good product?

 

Thanks,

tjb

[STuck]

I have the manual and the disk, but unfortunately the disk appears mostly corrupt

[STuck]

UPDATE: The disk has three bad tracks. I have the manual and case however.

[MrMaddog]

I had that once, the manual listed all the GEM functions but didn't really tell you how to use them or what they even did. Having the Atari Compendium on hand would have made things easier...

[STuck]

I'll leave this here in case anyone's interested

 

http://info-coach.fr/atari/software/languages/cmanship-v1.0.pdf

 

Though if anyone does have GST C I'd be grateful for a copy!

[STuck]

UPDATE: TJB: I have the disk working now, unfortunately I can't get my PC to read it (ST reads it fine: it must be an early TOS 1 floppy).

[mlynn1974]

I know this is rather old but I won GST C Compiler on eBay this week.

I have made an MSA disk image of the disk:

http://www.lynn3686.com/download/st/GSTC.MSA

 

GSTC Compiler is odd. It is 83 Tracks (0-82), 10 sectors, 2 sides but in 1985 most STs were shipped with single sided drives.
I assume it was made for many years and laterly put on a double sided disk rather than 2 single sided disks.
Tracks 80-82 (3 tracks) are not formatted on both sides (6 tracks in total).

 

It doesn't seem to be part of any copy protection and I think people would be encouraged to take a backup from the original disk as their "working version". I thought it may be very old any maybe only TOS 1.0 compatible but it seems to run better on TOS 1.04. At least you can select the drive letter in the file selector if your files are on a different partition on TOS 1.04.

 

On STEEM I copied the files from the disk to C:\GSTC run GSTC.PRG

It has a built in editor but it's very basic.

 

Main declarations seem to be K&R but it's not strict about it.

 

This is valid:

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
	printf("Hello world");
}

So is this:

main(argc, argv)
char *argv[];
{
}

 

Compiling and linking HELLO.C creates an executable of about 23k. Seems easier to access VDI functions.

[TGB1718]

Thank you so much @mlynn1974 , I used this quite a bit bitd as it was the only compiler I could afford at the time

Over the years I lost the Assembler program as I was running off floppy disks, lost my originals and the copy corrupted,

I had everything else. The main reason for wanting this is I used quite a bit of in-line assembler and this program made

it super easy to do, I can now re-visit a lot of my old code.

 

I did start a thread here some time ago asking if anyone had this but got nowhere

 

This was the compiler that started my programming career 🤩