phil@rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (10/12/88)
Forgive me if this is inappropriate for ".tech". Forgive me if the answers are well known. Forgive me if I seem to have an inferiority complex. Forgive me for continually asking your forgiveness. :-) Okay. I have a public domain assembler. I have a public domain linker. I have experience programming in 68000 assembly language. I have the ROM kernel manuals. I have a terminal to use with RomWACK. I have a history of masochism. But I'm still missing a few things to program my Amy. Where do I get amiga.library and the include files? Does all that come with the CATS developer's kit disk? Or am I forced to buy a commercial product like an assembler or a compiler to get these things? Please mail answers to me unles you think that mayn others out there want to know the answers as well. You see, I'd like to write some programs for Amy, but I can't currently afford a compiler. Since I know how to write assembly language (and that's always more of a challenge anyway)...... William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (10/13/88)
In article <1991@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@rice.edu writes: > ...But I'm still missing a few things to program my Amy. >Where do I get amiga.library and the include files? Does all that come >with the CATS developer's kit disk? ... > William LeFebvre Yes, $20, the Native Developers Update. Includes include files and autodocs, and possibly some startup modules. If it doesn't include amiga.lib you can always use Bryce's "small.lib" which is Amiga.lib rewhacked to remove a lot of stuff that isn't necessary, especially to the ass'y programmer. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (10/14/88)
You can also build yourself an include file with everthing that is in the amiga.lib by hacking the FD convert program included with the Extra;'s disk. This program takes the .fd files and converts them into somesort of file so call call the system directly from AmigBasic The same program can easily be hack to make .i files for the assembler then you won't need to link with amiga.lib. (this also speeds assmbly+link time if you only include the necessay function defs. reply to me at jap@syssun.cl.msu.edu