C65 notepad - a simple text notepad for the C65

The last few days I wrote a simple text notepad for the C65 in BASIC 10.

If you are one of these poor guys who don't own a real C65, you can also use a cheaper MEGA 65, the Nexys A7 board or even the Xemu emulator (xc65 or xmega65) for C65 notepad.

My main reason for doing this was to play a little with the BASIC 10 of the C65 and of course to have some fun.

Feel free to test and use the program if you want! But don't blame me, if an error lets explode your neighbors house. I will not pay for it!

In the attached zipped file you can find the D81 disc image and the manual (includes the printed BASIC 10 sourcecode) as a PDF file.

Quote from Manual

1. What is C65 Notepad and what not?

C65 Notepad is ...

... a simple text notepad (with four pages) to type in short text notes which could be saved on disc in the internal disc drive.

It could be used e.g. for notes about the programs on the disc (like readme docs etc.), a shopping list, your favorite cookie recipe, collect your ideas or whatever you want to take a short note of.

C65 Notepad is not ...

... a wordprocessor to type your long loveletter to your sweetheart, your newest bestseller novel or your dissertation.

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Thanks!

Quote from adtbm

Did you tested it on the Nexys or on XEMU ?

Mainly I have used Xemu (xc65) and the Nexys board for programming and testing.

With the Nexys board I have still the problems as decribed in this post and below. After pressing RESTORE and go back, in most cases the umlaut char are displayed correct.

I have tested the notepad with the xmega65 of Xemu and have recognized that in the lastest version of xmega65 the problem with the umlauts now exists even there.

I haven't find out yet why MEGA 65 overwrites the characters in the patched C65 ROM.

In xc65 of Xemu there is no problem and all works as it should be.

Quote from Snoopy

In the attached zipped file you can find the D81 disc image

Just an addition to the "README" program on this disc image:

Add this line to the BASIC 10 program:

75 PRINT CHR$(14)

This switches to the lowercase charset which is used in C65 notepad. Otherwise the default uppercase charset is wrongly used for displaying the pages.

Quote from ZeHa

Gibt es nen Grund wieso das auf 4 Seiten begrenzt ist?

Nicht wirklich! Es gingen vermutlich auch problemlos mehr Seiten.

Ich wollte es nicht "zu kompliziert" machen und mehr Text als vier Seiten lang fällt mir selten ein.

Für längere Texte müsste ich meine Frau bemühen. Allerdings bräuchte man dann dafür eine Speichererweiterung von ca. 50 GB.

Quote from deft

Hi Snoopy, is this free software? Do you allow us to bundle it with the MEGA65 by chance?

Cheers

Deft

Hi Deft,

to be honest: I didn't even think about any "licence" stuff for this program.

Quote from manual (page 2)

C65 notepad is for free. Use it and have fun.

If you think it's a good idea, you can of course bundle it with the MEGA65 or use it for a BASIC 10 example in the manual or whatever you want ...

I only think I would be a good idea to deliver it with the PDF manual, so the user can read about some functions. Not every option is completly self explaning in the program.

Thanks for your interest!

Here is a little update for C65 notepad (V 1.01):

"C65NOTEPAD" is unchanged. Only "README" has the additional line as described here.

The PDF manual is changed in the description of using the patched C65 ROM ("AH") for the use of german umlauts.

In the attached zipped file you can find the D81 disc image and the PDF with the manual.

Quote from mega65

I'm travelling for a couple of weeks,

It's time for a portable version of the Mega65, so you can take it with you!

adtbm Thanks for testing the software on a real Mega65!

Great german example sentence!

Quote from deft

Thank you Snoopy!

You made your place onto the default disk image of the upcoming DevKits

Many thanks!

So then I hope, that this wouldn't be the main reason, if a devkit will be returned.