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- From: mdf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin Frost)
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- Subject: Re: DICE help
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 13:59:05 -0000
- Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <311AC15C.7895@popd.ix.netcom.com>, ChrisC <jamesch@popd.ix.netcom.com> writes:
- >I just recieved an Amiga 500. It has 1 meg ram and 2 floppy drives. I
- >would like to start programming it in C. I downloaded DICE but I don't
- >yet have a hard drive and it will not fit on a floppy. Is there any way
- >I can split the file to work on 2 floppies? Or is there a good compiler
- >that I can download that will work with floppies only?
-
- DICE works fine on a system like this, although with only 1 meg RAM you will
- have to store all the temp files on a floppy (except for small files), which
- makes compiling a time to go and make a coffee... A friend compiles quite
- large programs on a 1mb, *1* floppy A600, and I have used DICE from 1mb and
- 3 floppies for large projects, when my memory expansion packed in.
-
- Simply make a boot disk with the follwoing files:
-
- C directory:
- DCC,DC1,DAS,DLink (from DICE distribution)
- Your favourite editor (if you don't have a preference use DME from DICE
- or MEmacs from your Extras disk)
- Assign (from workbench C dir)
-
- DInclude directory:
- All the #?.h files from the DInclude on the DICE distrbution.
-
- DLib directory:
- c.o,x.o,c.lib
- amigas13.lib if you have 1.2/1.3
- amigas20.lib otherwise
- all files from DICE distribution
-
- S directory:
- File "startup-sequence" containing the 2 lines
- Assign DLib: SYS:DLib
- Assign DInclude: SYS:DInclude
-
- DEVS directory:
- system-configuration from your Workbench disk.
-
- Then format another floppy and give it the volume label "T".
-
- Note that you will have to store your source files on your boot disk. You
- could store them on the T disk, but this is a bad idea, because the T disk
- is accessed so often that the floppy you use tends to wear out and give errors
- This is not too bad on just a temp disk (just recompile with a new disk) but
- if you lose 5 weeks' work you will not enjoy it.
-
- To use the setup boot from the boot disk you made with the T disk in your
- external drive.
-
- Please note also that with 1mb RAM you will not be able to compile source
- files longer than about 35k. The compiler seems to handle them fine, but the
- assembler crashes. If this happens, just split them up into smaller files.
-
- Hope this is of some use.
-
- Martin
-