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Title: Java for the C64 is out ...
Post by: Mark Smith on August 08, 2007, 07:27 PM
Kind of :-)

It's NanoVM and has been ported by that uber-genius Oliver Schmidt.

Have a looksie at the comp.sys.cbm thread ... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.cbm/browse_frm/thread/eb91ee68851cd425/c69c4571669e89ac#c69c4571669e89ac

Mark
Title: Java for the C64 is out ...
Post by: hydrophilic on August 09, 2007, 11:30 PM
Thanks for the link.   I was worried it would be bloated like other internet technology ported to the C64 (like a JPEG viewer eating all 64K), but since the VM binary is only 16K it sounds perfect for a ROM...
Title: Java for the C64 is out ...
Post by: Guest on August 10, 2007, 02:12 AM
A Java cart would be awesome, especially if it did some banking and included a decent editor and command line.
Title: Java for the C64 is out ...
Post by: RobertB on August 14, 2007, 05:49 AM
Quote from: hydrophilicI was worried it would be bloated like other internet technology ported to the C64 (like a JPEG viewer eating all 64K)...
Hmm, Steve Judd and Adrian Gonzalez would be interested to hear that their software is bloated.

CommVEx info at http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex or http://www.commodore.ca/forum
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
Title: Java for the C64 is out ...
Post by: hydrophilic on August 14, 2007, 08:40 AM
I'm not saying the software itself is at fault.  From what I understand, most of the memory is used by the decompressed data.  I was pleasantly suprised to learn a JPEG viewer even existed... it just doesn't seem useful without memory expansion on a C64.  Of course many 64'ers have REUs and us 128'ers have 64K to spare...
Title: Java for the C64 is out ...
Post by: Blacklord on August 14, 2007, 12:21 PM
Quote from: hydrophilicOf course many 64'ers have REUs
True perhaps for the USA, not always true for the rest of the world....

cheers,

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