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- From: don@terminus.gatech.edu (Don Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ST questions: GCC 2.2, FPUs and image converters
- Keywords: GCC, FPU, PI3
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.023529.17650@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 02:35:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.160516.28840@cc.gatech.edu> <1992Sep14.235431.6556@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Sender: Don Allison
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <1992Sep14.235431.6556@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
-
- (The >>'s are Howard quoting me)
-
- >
- >Yes, GCC 2.2 has been ported to the ST. I thought it was already on
- >atari.archive, I guess not. I can put a copy up in the next couple of
- >days.
-
- Great! If you could post when you put it up there I'd be really grateful,
- as I imagine others would...I'm not the first person I've seen ask for it,
- I've just never seen anybody admit to having it before! :-)
-
- >>
- >>2. Having just put an ICD AdSpeed STE in my system and added a
- >>floating point coprocessor, I was looking for a compiler that
- >>would support using a 68881 as a peripheral, like the ST's do.
- >
- >The libraries that come with GCC will support the FPU.
-
- Thanks for the pointer...I was worried that since most 680X0 systems running
- GCC that have a math coprocessor use it in coprocessor mode instead of as a
- peripheral like the 68000 does, that GCC only supported the coprocessor mode.
- Guess it's time to find and read the compiler documentation...
-
- >>
- >>3. I have some .TGA files on my PC that I want to convert to
- >>PI3 (I think? the monochrome one anyway) to use as backgrounds
- >>on my STe.
- >
- >Interesting. If ".TGA" means what I think (TARGA) then you want to
- >convert some 24-bit true-color images into ST 640x400 monochrome?
- >Yeehah.
-
- .TGA means Targa files, all right...what I wanted to do was customize my
- desktop with a picture of the mutt. The easiest way to get it was to
- grab it from video with the Targa board. I was hoping to be able to string
- a couple of programs together to do the conversion to save some time...
- if I have to, I'll write one...
-
- >
- >The PC version of FractInt reads and writes TARGA files. You can
- >probably use it to read them and save as GIFs, which you can then
- >convert to some other format easily enough.
- >
-
- Okay, thanks...I know there are some gif viewers for the ST, is there a GIF
- file converter?
-
- >What program do you use on the PC to display these TGA files, anyway?
-
- TIPS from Truevision...
-
- Thanks for all the info!
-
- Don Allison
- don@cc.gatech.edu
-
-
-
- -Don Allison (don@cc.gatech.edu)
-