slavenbg@prle2.UUCP (Gert Slavenburg) (04/22/86)
We where very happy to receive Landon's conversion utility from Atari binaries
to Amiga binaries, since we were dying to get as good a local development
environment on our Amiga as the Atari people allready have for quite a while !
Our experiences with the conversion of major ST packages is described below :
We received Landons package with a 3 day delay (on the 4'th of April). It
took us some time to get the uuencoded version to work, but after a day or
2 we found it sufficiently reliable for our purpose : to get TOS converted
to the Amiga.
We used the 11/20/85 release (the Atari ROM release of TOS), and converted
it to a slightly larger objectfile on the Amiga, which took about 1 hour (!).
The first tests of TOS seemed to work reliable, though file I/O was slower
than expected. Encouraged by this succes, we proceeded on converting the
hard-disk driver (version 0.11, the most recent European release).
At first glance the combination seemed to be working allright, however once we
started using TOS on harddisk for serious development, we found the
following unexplainable problems :
+ The system dies horribly if we visit more than some 10 nodes in our
directory hierarchy. It complains about not enough memory, though
we still seem to have 700 k available. We cannot do any filecopy
(e.g. from RAMdisk to harddisk) anymore.
+ hard disk reading is VERY fast, however we have to still do all our
compiles on a RAMdisk since writing on a more than 30 % utilised harddisk
becomes slower than writing on a floppy.
Landon, I hope these problems with your conversion utility will be solved
soon.
Gert Slavenburg -:)