Posted By
Chicken
on 2009-02-10
09:55:01
 |  Re: Austrospeed for Plus4 freeware?
Guess what I found in the follow-up issue 
Compute mit - Sonderheft 4/87, pp. 4-5
A review of the Austrospeed-Compiler
Ozymandias was right, the Compiler came with a userport cartridge (some copy protection). Though, the program itself was distributed on a disk (116 blocks).
This means that the "The Raven" version is a "real" crack which got rid of the dongle check.
The screen shot in the article shows "V850506".
It DOES mention some limitations with TRAP and RESUME. However, there are not details listed. The manual is the C 64 version one with an extra sheet explaining the differences of the plus/4 version.
The "RESUME complete" option creates 5-10% slower P-Code compared to the "RESUME line number" option. Furthermore, the resulting code is about 20% longer.
"RESUME line number" clears all GOSUB addresses and closes all FOR ... NEXT loops.
"RESUME complete" does NOT clear the stack pointer.
GRAPHIC CLR is not clearing the RAM (occupied by the hires screen) instead it's just a GRAPHIC 0.
The article notes that embedded MC routines (in DATA lines) caused problems in some test.
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