r/apple2 • u/mpower-codeworks • 1d ago

Introducing Dee, a Very Small Text Editor for Apple II

Right up front, it only holds one byte. Total document will just be: "B", "c", etc...

The point of the project was to build the smallest possible working text editor I could. It has Load, Save, New, Print, Unsaved file protection, and a couple other things. It was written in CA65 and the repository contains the entire-build up in 26 stages for those interested.

I did a bit of size-coding along the way, but nothing too crazy because I don't want to untangle it later as the project grows into a fuller text editor. I included a 140 KB image and an 800 KB image, both bootable.

So for now I suppose it's a demo of what the project could hopefully grow into.

Thanks!

https://github.com/mpower-codeworks/Dee-Text-Editor-Apple-II

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u/AlliedArmour 22h ago

How small is the actual program?

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u/mpower-codeworks 10h ago

421 bytes. If you are interested in REALLY small, see 006 in the build history. It comes in at 75 bytes and has a buffer and display output with DELETE for a single character. No file I/O.

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u/DanK-Cowboy 22h ago

The repo says 421 bytes

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u/AlliedArmour 21h ago

That's AWESOME