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- From: Karl Harrison <harrison@harrison.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: New programmer wants help
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 23:16:07 GMT
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- Steffen Haeuser (magicsn@birdland.es.bawue.de) wrote:
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- : harrison%harrison.demon.co.uk@INTERNET wrote :
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- : >
- : >
- : > I'm looking for c source code that demonstrates
- : > multi-tasking on the Amiga.
- : > Anyone any tips?
-
- : What do you mean? Starting a new task oneself from the program ? I have to
- : admit i never did this ... but there are somewhere sources from old Commodore
- : (developper kit or something like that) where sources of everything are in...
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- No communication between two seperately launched programs, its for a college
- project on RT systems and the tutor had'nt heard of the Amiga :(
- but he's interested in the OS and for me to demo it! (gulp)
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- : >
- : > Are the PD compilers any good?
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- : GNU C gives you very small and fast code, but the COMPILER ITSELF needs huge
- : amounts of memory and is not that easy to use like commercial ones... Dice
- : (Shareware) is very good, but i do not know if it is still supported... most
- : people use commercial SAS/C (there is a cheaper version for students, BTW...)
- : Maxon is ok and there is a cheap version of it too, but it runs not very
- : stable on Graphics Board Systems (i think the editor causes the problems).
- : Storm C is fine, but expensive... well, i myself will stick with my SAS/C...
- : if that is too expensive for you, i would try Dice at your place ...
-
- : Steffen Haeuser
-
- DICE is supported by Fouth level developments and I think thats what I'm going for.
-
- Thanks Karl
-