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| 3861.1 | | NAC::BRANNON | value added | Tue Jun 19 1990 13:21 | 2 |
| please define "workable".
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| 3861.2 | | KYOA::MIANO | John - NY Retail Banking Resource Cntr | Tue Jun 19 1990 16:50 | 5 |
| If you want to learn C programming you should not use any of
the PD compilers available for the Amiga. That is unless you are
the sort of person who enjoys self abuse.
John
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| 3861.3 | Is DICE dicey? | BELFST::MCCLINTOCK | Peter | Tue Jun 19 1990 18:38 | 3 |
| What about Matthew Dillon's DICE V2 system. Has anyone tried it?
Peter
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| 3861.4 | | WJG::GUINEAU | | Wed Jun 20 1990 11:07 | 9 |
| DICE works. I've compiled some simple examples and it's fast. The resulting
code was smaller than Lattice (5.04) and ran faster.
It doesn't support floating point yet.
You need the Amiga libraries. These can be purchased from CATS for about
$30.00
john
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| 3861.5 | WORKABLE CATS | YUPPY::DUTTONS | | Fri Jun 22 1990 12:44 | 4 |
| By "workable" I meant ... workable! A C-compiler I would be
able to use as a C novice.
What is CATS? What is DICE?
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| 3861.6 | Commodore Support | FENRYS::mwm | Mike (7.14MHz just isn't fast enough) Meyer | Fri Jun 22 1990 14:46 | 21 |
| DICE is Dillon's Integrated C Environment. There are other comments on it
here.
CATS is Commodore Amiga Technical Supprt. It's the nice group of people at
CBM who take respnosibility for providing technical support to Amiga
developers, at all levels. They're the ones you talk to after you join
the Developer Support program; to to get (or submit) IFF specs; to get
the standard CBM include files or the AutoDocs on the kickstart ROM.
I agree - a C compiler that requires that you go purchase include files from
someone else isn't useable for novices. That's probably why the commercial
compilers include those files with the compiler. Of course, if you're willing
to live programming with only "portable" constructs, then everything should
work without those include files. But you'll be stuck in the CLI.
I don't know what the licensing on those include files are. I suspect that
they can't be freely distributed, otherwise Matt would have done so. Anyone
know for sure, or know if those include files are included with another
of the Free compilers?
<mike
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| 3861.7 | Probably won't see include files with shareware or PD products | STAR::ROBINSON | | Fri Jun 22 1990 15:42 | 9 |
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Developers can pay a fee and get a license to distribute the files with a
product. I doubt you will see it with a shareware product though. Developers
can pay to include parts of the workbench with a product too. As I
understand it, when they want to distribute a demo of their product to the
net, they have to (are supposed to) eliminate those workbench files
from the distribution.
Dave
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| 3861.8 | Include File Particulars | RGB::ROSE | | Mon Jun 25 1990 10:56 | 11 |
| You can get the include files from Commodore. Ask for the "AmigaDOS
1.3 Native Developer's Update Kit". Send $20 (they say a money order
speeds things up). Send it to:
CATS-ORDERS
Commodore Business Machines
1200 Wilson Blvd.
Westchester PA 19380
Mine took just under a week to arrive. You get 4 disks.
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