ad0834@leah.albany.edu (Andy Dickinson) (03/29/91)
Hello - I'm wondering if anyone could give me some information on Atari ST AES/VDI calls. I am using the Sozobon C development system and I have the bindings for these calls, but I can't seem to find anything on what the calls actually are! Everything I read seems to assume that I own a copy of the ST Development Toolkit, which I don't. Does anyone know of any documentation I might be able to find online which would explain how to use these calls? - Thanks Andy Dickinson -- Internet : ad0834@leah.albany.edu Bitnet : AD0834@ALBNYVMS.BITNET USMail : 161 Lark St., Albany NY 12210 - 1427 Ph : (518) 426 - 7907 * * * SUNY Albany Coalition to End the Gulf War : [ Info : (518) 426 - 7907 ] * * Capital Dist. Draft and Milatary Counselors : [ Info : (518) 434 - 4037 ]
steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) (03/29/91)
[In article <1991Mar28.204840.4726@sarah.albany.edu>,
ad0834@leah.albany.edu (Andy Dickinson) writes ... ]
> I'm wondering if anyone could give me some information on
> Atari ST AES/VDI calls. I am using the Sozobon C development system
> and I have the bindings for these calls, but I can't seem to find
> anything on what the calls actually are! Everything I read seems to
> assume that I own a copy of the ST Development Toolkit, which I don't.
>
> Does anyone know of any documentation I might be able to find
> online which would explain how to use these calls?
Online? Not much. The Tim Oren ``Pro GEM'' series should be available
at atari.archive.umich.edu; it's a GEM programming tutorial. You also
should make a point of grabbing all the GEM C code you can find.
(This is a good point at which to insert another appeal for authors
of PD programs to publish their source code.)
Books to look for include the Abacus ``Atari ST GEM Programmer's
Reference'' and Bantam's ``Atari ST Application Programming'' (which is
out of print).
Try your college library and don't forget about interlibrary loans.
Using the Bantam book as a guide, I wrote a set of AES bindings a couple
of years ago and fully intended to complete the job with VDI bindings and
documentation, but set the project aside when Ian Lepore's GEMfast
libraries appeared. Maybe I should have done the docs anyway.
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