nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) (01/16/90)
All this talk about the Lynx has made me curious. If, as seems to be the
case, the Amiga is currently the preferred development platform, is it
possible for those of us with Amigas to hack around writing Lynx programs?
Is Atari making the development systems available, or keeping it proprietary
for the time being?
Anyone know what the "official" programming language is for it? I've never
believed that C could work real well on a 6502, but I can't see people filling
2 Meg cartridges with Assembler (yeah, I know, most of it's probably image
data, but still...) Is there a Lynx simulator on the Amiga?
Just call me "Mr. Curious."
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\\\\________________//\\__________________//\\_________________________////dodgson@cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson) (01/16/90)
In article <8581@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) writes: > All this talk about the Lynx has made me curious. If, as seems to be the > case, the Amiga is currently the preferred development platform, is it > possible for those of us with Amigas to hack around writing Lynx programs? > Is Atari making the development systems available, or keeping it proprietary > for the time being? The people at Atari will be happy to SELL you a development system as they build them. Can you afford $5000.00 for a custom board that plugs into your Amiga? I couldn't, therefore I didn't get one. This wonderful little board contains all the circuitry of a Lynx (including display) and connects to the parallel port of the Amiga. The Amiga runs several programs (isn't multitasking nice?) that allows the programmer to make changes to the code, recompile/assemble and download to the board at the same time. There are also debugging facilities built in. > > Anyone know what the "official" programming language is for it? I've never > believed that C could work real well on a 6502, but I can't see people filling > 2 Meg cartridges with Assembler (yeah, I know, most of it's probably image > data, but still...) Is there a Lynx simulator on the Amiga? I didn't find out what language was supported, but a 4 MHz 65C02 can compete with an 8 MHz 68000 in execution cycles, so don't sell it short. A few 16 MHz coprocessors don't hurt either. As far as a simulator, the board executes all the code, so simulation on the Amiga screen isn't needed. notice: I got this info direct from the Chicago Atari office - no speculations, no rumors, this is what the person told me. Harry -- Harry Dodgson Jr. | Internet dodgson@cs.wmich.edu -(35.132.4.1)- Western Michigan University | UUCP ...uunet!sharkey!wmichgw!wmu-cs!dodgson Computer Science Department | Voice (616) 387-5803 Kalamazoo, MI 49008 | Office 4420 Dunbar Hall
rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) (01/18/90)
In article <759@cs.wmich.edu> dodgson@cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson) writes: > The people at Atari will be happy to SELL you a development system >as they build them. Can you afford $5000.00 for a custom board that >plugs into your Amiga? I couldn't, therefore I didn't get one. Nor I. I assume this chunk of cash buys only the board & software, and you supply the Amiga? I suppose $5K is chump-change for the game houses, but ow! it sure isn't for us mortals. > I didn't find out what language was supported, but a 4 MHz 65C02 >can compete with an 8 MHz 68000 in execution cycles, so don't sell it short. >A few 16 MHz coprocessors don't hurt either. As far as a simulator, the >board executes all the code, so simulation on the Amiga screen isn't needed. Sort of related question: whatever happened to the 6809 chip? I always thought it had a lot going for it, too, as 8-bit chips go. The only commercial computer/game that I know for sure used it was the Tandy Co-Co. -- >>"Aaiiyeeee! Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com "Flee, lest we be trod upon!" | The Apollo System Division of H.P.
uace0@uhnix2.uh.edu (Michael B. Vederman) (01/18/90)
>Sort of related question: whatever happened to the 6809 chip? I always >thought it had a lot going for it, too, as 8-bit chips go. The only >commercial computer/game that I know for sure used it was the Tandy Co-Co. >-- >>>"Aaiiyeeee! Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com > "Flee, lest we be trod upon!" | The Apollo System Division of H.P The 6809 was used on some of the Williams games: Robotron,Stargate,Joust. - Paul -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Double Click Me | Double Click Software | P.O. Box 741206 | Houston, Tx, 77274 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support BBS: (713)944-0108 | SHADOW | DC FORMATTER | DC UTILITIES | and others
boncelet@udel.edu (Charles Boncelet) (01/19/90)
>Sort of related question: whatever happened to the 6809 chip? I always >thought it had a lot going for it, too, as 8-bit chips go. The only >commercial computer/game that I know for sure used it was the Tandy Co-Co. >-- >>>"Aaiiyeeee! Death from above!"<< | Steve Rehrauer, rehrauer@apollo.hp.com > "Flee, lest we be trod upon!" | The Apollo System Division of H.P. The 6809 was used in the Vectrex vector graphics video game. In my opinion, this was (is) an excellent product. Unfortunately, they went belly up. RIP. Charlie Boncelet <boncelet@huey.udel.edu>