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- From: duening@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Lars Duening)
- Subject: Re: Amiga-Oberon (please ignore preceding post *blush*)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.114649.28731@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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- Reply-To: duening@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Lars Duening)
- Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
- References: <1992Sep15.042256.7973@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:46:49 GMT
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- ( Sorry, previous post used the wrong file. )
-
- Recently pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) and
- James_Coulter@panam.wimsey.bc.ca (James Coulter) asked for information
- about Amiga-Oberon.
-
- Amiga-Oberon (now in version 2.13) is written by Fridtjof Siebert and
- sold by a swiss company:
-
- A+L AG.
- Daederiz 61
- CH-2540 Grenchen
- Switzerland
- Phone: (+41) 065/52 03 11
-
- and costs US-$ 246 for the compiler package, and additional US-$ 165
- for the run-time debugger (prices w/o VAT or customs).
- For about US-$ 50 per year you get free minor updates and cheaper
- major updates.
- Payment may be done in advance or (at least within Europe) by COD.
- Unfortunately they have no distributor in the USA (don't know of the
- other countries).
- The compiler is sold in german and english versions.
-
- Amiga-Oberon implements 'revised Oberon' (an update to Oberon-2 is
- said to be in preparation) with Amiga-specific extensions (e.g. BPTRs;
- extendable STRUCTures w/o type information; support of multi-language
- development; direct access to memory locations).
- The compiler especially knows how to call the .libraries directly with
- arguments placed in registers. This feature may also be used for own
- programs/.libraries.
- It has complete Amiga-OS 2.0 support.
- The compiler runs fast, and produces good, fast code. I experienced no
- bugs so far.
- The default runtime system catches in cooperation with the runtime
- checks within the code almost all potential gurus.
-
- Included with the compiler is a customizable editor, which allows to
- call compiler and linker from within, linker (of course), a special
- make, a special linker for .libraries and .devices, and the complete
- sources of the .library-interface and the runtime modules.
-
- The additional debugger allows runtime source debugging quite
- comfortably. With it come some other smalls utils (cross reference,
- disassembler).
-
- Personally I recommend the compiler.
- If you want to take a look at actual sources, try the AMOK-PD disks
- (available at least on athene.uni-paderborn.de, /pcsoft/amiga/amok).
-
- -- Lars
-
- ..oh, yes, the disclaimer: I am not involved with the company, except
- that I am satisfied customer.
-