Cate compiler

[oss003]

Hi guys,

I don't know if anyone noticed this site but someone told me about the Cate compiler written by Inufuto ...
It's a Japenese guy and his site is Japanese .... but there is where Google translate comes in ...

The Cate compiler i's a C-like compiler for old retro systems and at the moment it supports Z80, 6800, 6502 and 6809 code.
On his site he has a collection of 11 games, each compiled for about 50 systems including the Electron and BBC ....... very impressive.
For some games, the source code is available and can be downloaded.

You can find all games and ports on: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/
And the compiler at: https://github.com/inufuto/Cate
He is using this assembler: https://github.com/inufuto/asm8

Greetings
Kees

[BigEd]

Interesting find! And it supports the 6809... I see it's a Visual Studio "solution" - presumably builds nicely for Windows, but only Windows...

[dominicbeesley]

I'll try and get a look at this this weekend.

.net is now pretty much cross platform unless you go out of your way to be windows centric so it should be possible to get it working on Linux and maybe mac os... not that I've ever done it other than getting some stuff to run on a pi a few years ago

[BigEd]

Oh, that sounds hopeful.

[Lardo Boffin]

I wrote a .net program (.net core I think) designed to run on Windows and Mac and all I had to do was change between / and \ for file paths for the two systems as shown in https://github.com/LardoBoffin/Adventur ... Program.cs

[lurkio]

For some games, the source code is available and can be downloaded.

Very interesting!

Do you have links to the source code for any of the games? I couldn’t find any.

[oss003]

Do you have links to the source code for any of the games? I couldn’t find any.

If you let Google translate the site to English, you can find links to the asm sources of the Electron and BBC versions. Can't find any C-sources ....

Greetings
Kees

[Cybershark]

These looked like fun - and UEFs annoy me - so I threw all 10 of the BBC games together onto a disc image (with basic menu & memory relocator).
Quite some time since I wrote any BASIC, so that was a fun trip down memory lane

[EDIT]
Updated version with (translated) instructions included:

Inufuto-games-comp.ssd

Inufuto games compilation w/ instructions

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[Iapetus]

Hi guys,

I don't know if anyone noticed this site but someone told me about the Cate compiler written by Inufuto ...
It's a Japenese guy and his site is Japanese .... but there is where Google translate comes in ...

[...]
You can find all games and ports on: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/
And the compiler at: https://github.com/inufuto/Cate
He is using this assembler: https://github.com/inufuto/asm8

Greetings
Kees

This is very interesting, thx a lot Kees

[oss003]

This is very interesting, thx a lot Kees

@Iapetus Your new game is also looking great ..... nice job ...

You did write some other demo's in the past for the Electron and Atom, is there still any progress in developing?
It's a pitty if that work gets lost so I'll be happy to help you with finishing the Atom games if you want.

Greetings
Kees

[Iapetus]

This is very interesting, thx a lot Kees

@Iapetus Your new game is also looking great ..... nice job ...

You did write some other demo's in the past for the Electron and Atom, is there still any progress in developing?
It's a pitty if that work gets lost so I'll be happy to help you with finishing the Atom games if you want.

Greetings
Kees

Thank you so much Kees!
I still haven't lost hope of finishing these other game projects but if I quit I will put the files online and/or send them to someone interested like you.

Recarding the Cate compiler after visiting the links you provided I noticed that I already visited the website with the games sometime in the past but I
didn't know about the C and ASM compilers!

Looking forward to seeing more original games from you. Cheers.

[Chuckie]

There need to be a a google translator for assembly into English!