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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
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- Subject: Re: Will the PPC split up the Amiga community?
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 01:57:46 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : Always a tricky question. We are certainly planning on having one unified
- : set of source files for Photogenics, with a #define PPC/#define 680x0
- : option, or a switch in the makefile, so 680x0 and PPC versions get built
- : together.
-
- : The problem we have at the moment is we have a small but significant
- : amount of 680x0 assembler code in the product. We may convert much of
- : this to C, but some may be left as 680x0 running under emulation on the
- : new machine, it depends on how critical the code is and how easy a mixed
-
- you know how it will work on Ami ? i.e. mix PPC code & 68k code ?
- for example what about emulated 68k code doing lib calls of
- a PPC-code lib ?
-
- : code system will work on the new machines.
-
- : We even may try getting our hands dirty at PPC assembler if we can :-)
-
- yes, makes sense for important inner loops.
-
- : But, all of our customers at the moment run 680x0 machines. There are
- : millions of 680x0 machines out there. It would be crazy to ignore the
- : 680x0 market, especially as our software is already limited by needing
- : >=68020 and >=Kickstart 3.0.
-
- : Jolyon - Almathera
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