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Cross Compiled C code for Amstrad CPC

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So, the Atari 800 XL is running a 6502 CPU and p reviously I setup the C cross-compiler in Linux / Windows to write simple C code, compile the code, deploy to an emulator and to real hardware. Now...as I may have mentioned, my first computer was an Amstrad CPC 464 back in xmas 1984 - I was a little too young to really appreciate coding in anything other than BASIC at the time but I made a good go of it and did some interesting database / filing system type things that emulated PRESTEL screens and made some very slow BASIC games and played a lot of TAPE games.  I never really had the opportunity to write any code in C or Assembler for that hardware. Time zoomed along and I moved onto an Atari 520 STFM, then onto a 286 PC, then 386, then 486, then, well, y'know.... Around the 2007/2008/2009 period of time, I was having an external garage of the house I was living in at the time converted into an "office", but it had quite a lot of space, so I thought wouldn't it be goo...