rcoem@yabbie.rmit.oz (Peter Milway) (09/19/88)
Hello networld, I have just recently received the Tandy OS9 lev II developers kit. One of the main reasons I got it was for the C graphics library, however the only documentation in the kit, was that the library file existed. There was no mention of the routines that are included in the library, let alone of what they could possible achieve. I assume that all the functions supported by BASIC09 are available, but Tandy has done a poor job in documenting this C library, so that I have no real idea. If anyone knows what is in this library, and what the parameters to each function are could they please mail me, or post a response here. Any information would be most appreaciated. Also is there a floating point math C library for the same C compiler ? Regards Peter Milway ACSnet: rcoem@yabbie UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!yabbie.rmit.oz!rcoem CSNET: rcoem@yabbie.rmit.oz ARPA: rcoem%yabbie.rmit.oz@uunet.uu.net BITNET: rcoem%yabbie.rmit.oz@CSNET-RELAY PHONE: + 61 3 660 2594 Digital Systems & Computer Engineering, Department of Communication & Electronic Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 2476V, Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall) (09/21/88)
The documentation for the developer's pak is available in the
Multi-Vue package (makes great TANDY sense, doesn't it?)... I guess
they assume that you'll be using Windint, which only comes with MV. I
believe that there are some text files on Compuserve's OS9 forum that
deal with what's available.
Pete
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Hah hah, Tandy got you (us) again! The docs for the C Graphics Libe are in the MultiVue manual! If you don't want MultiVue or have a friend with it and a Xerox machine, that will be $50 for the docs. I got both when they came out so I'm not as PO'ed as some people might be. The C libe routines are just very short code pieces to take your arguments and spit them out to the Windows after prefixing an ESCape ($1B) and control code. You could easily write your own set, but presumably Tandy's are shorter and faster, written in assembler. BTW, the MultiVue manual also documents some very handy C system call routines, but these are not in the cgfx,lib nor anywhere else that I can find. These all have names of form _ss_xxx, where the x's are the name. Anyone know where these are hiding? For a math library, either CIS or DElphi has Carl Kreider's replacement clib.l and tlib.l, where 't' means Transendental math fcns. Good docs online, too. Free for price of download connect time. His ordinary C libe is better than the official one too.
bbw842@leah.Albany.Edu (Barry B Werger) (09/24/88)
I can't find a copy of the Rainbow anywhere in Albany.... Is it still being published? Does anyone have a phone number/address? Does anyone know a date for this years East Coast Rainbowfest, if any? Thank you, Barry
aweiss@pacsbb.UUCP (arnold weiss) (09/25/88)
It seems that the distributer for Rainbow has been changed. I had my subscription copy of the Sept issues two weeks before the stores got their Aug issues. The following week they got the Sept issue. They are now up to date and have the Oct issue.
knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) (09/27/88)
The Rainbow mag is very much alive. The Princeton RainbowFest is Oct 21-23. There will be some new vendors there -- check 'em out.