Java for the C64 is out ...

[Mark Smith]

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

[hydrophilic]

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...

[Guest]

A Java cart would be awesome, especially if it did some banking and included a decent editor and command line.

[RobertB]

I 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

[hydrophilic]

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...

[Blacklord]

Of course many 64'ers have REUs

True perhaps for the USA, not always true for the rest of the world....

cheers,

Lance