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. ---- Steve Yelvington / P. O. Box 38 / Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047 USA INTERNET: steve@thelake.mn.org UUCP: plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve GEnie: S.YELVINGTO2 Delphi: YELVINGTON
ad0834@leah.albany.edu (Andy Dickinson) (03/30/91)
In article <A3194164860@thelake.mn.org> steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: >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. Yeah -- I was looking for the Pro Gem series... Does anyone know where it is? I can't seem to find it on atari.archive.umich.edu... I did find a program at archive-server@panarthea.sun.com called fract.c which had some excelent line-a opcode bindings in it. - 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 ]
Alex.Valdez@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (04/03/91)
In article <A3194164860@thelake.mn.org> steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: > [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 ... stuff deleted... > > 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). ... more stuff deleted... > > ---- > Steve Yelvington / P. O. Box 38 / Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047 USA > INTERNET: steve@thelake.mn.org UUCP: plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve > GEnie: S.YELVINGTO2 Delphi: YELVINGTON I have not seen the Bantam book but I found the Abacus one not very helpful. The Compute "Technical Reference Guide to the Atari ST" series of books were much better. It comes in 3 volumes - VDI, AES and TOS. std.disclaimer: I'm not related in any way to Compute! Books but merely a satisfied customer. -- ================================Alex Valdez============================= "Alas sais na naman, oras ng pagdidili-dili... Isaisip ang mabuti, ang masama'y iwaksi..."