prindle@nadc (10/17/86)
From: prindle@NADC Late breaking news: 1. C Power BBS got hit by lightning and lost part of the graphics library, but I will still post it all to this list soon. 2. A new, high speed, and *documented* C Power graphics library is now available from David Kessner. For free, you can get this, and the reviews so far indicate it is a very nice product. Mail 2 diskettes and a Self Addressed return diskette mailer to: David Kessner 1135 Fairfax Denver, CO 80220 (303) 377-1801 All I can say for David is I hope he has two drives and one of the FAST HACK'EM auto copy modules. His library is callable from C Power but written in assembler for speed, and appears to include more powerful capabilities than the one on the BBS. Send him 3 diskettes instead of 2 and he will also send you a copy of Mark Rinfret's C Power assembler which generates C Power linkable object modules and is written in C. It wouldn't be a bad idea to log on the C Power BBS and send David a short note letting him know you will be sending him diskettes. Note that this library is for C Power 64. No guarantees that it will work under C Power 128, and in all likelyhood it won't because of different memory management for the VIC-II chip in the 128. 3. Does anyone who has C Power 128 care to comment on whether the "-p" option of the compiler (i.e. tell compiler not to ask for disk swaps) works properly? There is a rumor on the BBS that it doesn't. If it doesn't, what version do you have? If it does, also what version do you have? I'm planning to buy it real soon, but probably should hold off if this option doesn't work, cause answering those swap messages is no fun. Sincerely, Frank Prindle Prindle@NADC.arpa
rayz@csustan.UUCP (R. L. Zarling) (10/21/86)
> >3. Does anyone who has C Power 128 care to comment on whether the "-p" option > of the compiler (i.e. tell compiler not to ask for disk swaps) works > properly? There is a rumor on the BBS that it doesn't. The -p option is "inverted" from the documentation. If you issue -p, the compiler pauses for disk swapping. Without it, there is no pause. The version of C-Power 128 I have has no version number, but is about four months old now. Does anyone know what the -n option is for? The documentation says at one point that you should use it with "multiple disk drives" but I can't tell that it makes any difference...
ugbowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon Bowen) (10/23/86)
In article <3740@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> prindle@nadc writes: >3. Does anyone who has C Power 128 care to comment on whether the "-p" option > of the compiler (i.e. tell compiler not to ask for disk swaps) works > properly? There is a rumor on the BBS that it doesn't. If it doesn't, > what version do you have? If it does, also what version do you have? I'm > planning to buy it real soon, but probably should hold off if this option > doesn't work, cause answering those swap messages is no fun. I haven't been able to get the -p option to work on mine, but I haven't really put it through all cases. I'm not sure of my version number, but I just got it two months ago. One thing though, with the extra 64k the 128 has over the 64, they built an optional RAM disk. It's 191 blocks long, and I've found that this is sufficient for compiling in. For example, I say: cc 2:test.c and it gets the compiler from the disk, yet compiles it on the RAM disk (unit 2), and it doesn't ask for disk swaps! I just got done writing a fairly large assembler and micro-code simulator for a class that was quite large, but I managed to keep all the source and object files on RAM disk and I kept the command files on the disk. Oh, by the way, the RAM disk is optional, so you can use that extra 64k for program space if you need it. When you people are saying graphics packages, do you mean just the standard library of graphics primatives, or do you mean the full blown packages with world coordinates, matix transformations, etc? Devon Bowen (KA2NRC) Universtiy of Buffalo ******************************************************** csnet: ugbowen@buffalo.CSNET uucp: ..!{allegra,decvax,watmath,rocksanne}!sunybcs!ugbowen BITNET: ugbowen@sunybcs.BITNET Voice: (716) 836-7358 USnail: 67 Lisbon Ave; Buffalo, NY; 14214 ********************************************************
jay@garfield.UUCP (10/27/86)
In article <1234@sunybcs.UUCP> ugbowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon Bowen) writes: >One thing though, with the extra 64k the >128 has over the 64, they built an optional RAM disk. It's 191 blocks >long, and I've found that this is sufficient for compiling in. For example, >I say: cc 2:test.c and it gets the compiler from the disk, yet compiles >it on the RAM disk (unit 2), and it doesn't ask for disk swaps! I just got >done writing a fairly large assembler and micro-code simulator for a class >that was quite large, but I managed to keep all the source and object >files on RAM disk and I kept the command files on the disk. Oh, by the >way, the RAM disk is optional, so you can use that extra 64k for program >space if you need it. > > > Devon Bowen (KA2NRC) >******************************************************** Regarding the ram disk, I was wondering if it also supported the new ram expansions available for the C128. Can one get a large ram disk using the ram expansions?..... Can one use the extra 64k for program space and have a ram drive solely in the ram expansion module. J.(Jay) Kumarasingam UUCP: {akgua,allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4,seismo,utcsri}!garfield!jay CDNNET: jay@garfield.mun.cdn -- The opinions expressed here are not mine, I stole them.
bs@ptsfb.UUCP (Bruce Skelly) (10/30/86)
I just got my 1750 Ram expansion unit, and the rdon command in the C-Power shell still accesses a ram disk of 191 blocks. If C-Power shell can use the 1750 as ram disk, I was unable to find a way to do it. Bruce Skelly
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.COM (Dave Haynie) (10/31/86)
> Keywords: C-Power 1750 RAM Expansion > Summary: No > > I just got my 1750 Ram expansion unit, and the rdon command in the > C-Power shell still accesses a ram disk of 191 blocks. If C-Power > shell can use the 1750 as ram disk, I was unable to find a way to > do it. > Bruce Skelly They probably don't look for the 1750 with their ramdisk software. If they have a working ramdisk built into this shell, though, it would not be very difficult for anyone (with the source code) to add support for the 1750; the hardest part it already done. And you could always write a few simple C routines to manage the 1750 on your own; its programming is pretty straightforward. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dave Haynie {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh HAPPY NEW YEAR! "Laws to supress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security." -Bene Gesserit Coda These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they may be yours too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~