Wednesday 30 May 2018

spudge initial release (0.767)

it's finally here!
the first public release of spudge a new Atari 8 bit programming language

see the previous spudge pre-announcement for the 'rationale' for behind this

here's a zip containing the current (alpha) version along with some documentation and example code
spudge0767-2018-05-30.zip

It has mostly been developed on Windows, but it should run on Linux and Mac OS X too.

how to install
1) unpack the archive as the spudge directory in your home directory
2) copy (from the spudge/bin directory) the spudge.bat (for Windows) or spudge (MacOSX, Linux) file somewhere on your PATH and make executable
   (chmod +x on MacOSX, Linux)

perl 5
spudge requires perl 5, install it if required
on Windows 10 I use Strawberry Perl (5.26 http://strawberryperl.com)
on Linux and MacOS X it's probably already there
any recent version (5.18.2 and 5.26 tested) will probably be OK

MADS
spudge uses mads to assemble the assembler code
install somewhere on your PATH
  http://mads.atari8.info/

how to run
1) open a command shell in your source directory
2) spudge -h

here is a tests directory in the spudge installation which may be a good place to start
      spudge -c hello-world.spudge

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