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#18222 Oberon Message #18279
From: David N. Williams Amiga Tech Forum · General Programming December 25, 1991 9:14 AM
Thanks, Wayne. The demo version is on Fred Fish 380. It's crippled in certain ways, like not responding on Monday's, but seems able enough to get a good idea of what it's like. There's a book by N. Wirth, I believe, which just specifies the language. It's supposed to be…
Oberon Message #18061
From: David N. Williams Amiga Tech Forum · General Programming December 21, 1991 6:37 PM
Does anybody use the Amiga version of Oberon? How much does the commercial version cost, and where can one get it? I've a mind to play around with the demo version in the Fred Fish library over the holidays, and wonder what its current status is.
#27506 #IDCMP Message #27583
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 23, 1986 7:04 PM
Mike, I agree with Charlie. Both the code samples you showed have one level too many of indirection. You should write move.l im_Class(a1),d1 then start testing the bits in d1. The IDCMP does indeed set *all* the flags you have requested in your initial window structure at once, in each…
#27506 #IDCMP Message #27583
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 23, 1986 7:04 PM
Mike, I agree with Charlie. Both the code samples you showed have one level too many of indirection. You should write move.l im_Class(a1),d1 then start testing the bits in d1. The IDCMP does indeed set *all* the flags you have requested in your initial window structure at once, in each…
#27094- #KS 1.2 Beta 4!!! Message #27124
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 18, 1986 5:47 PM
Nope, Tony, I didn't know that a pattern was expected after s! Now, more than ever, I call it a bug! –David
#27094- #KS 1.2 Beta 4!!! Message #27124
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 18, 1986 5:47 PM
Nope, Tony, I didn't know that a pattern was expected after s! Now, more than ever, I call it a bug! –David
#26854 #KS 1.2 Beta 4!!! Message #26963
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 16, 1986 10:19 PM
A bug thread is a good idea, Brian! Here's what I've noticed so far. 1. A persistent bug in all versions to date: "list s" does not work from the CLI. "list s/" or "list s:" or "list :s" does. 2. ScrollLayers() was fixed in pt. When writing to an…
#26854 #KS 1.2 Beta 4!!! Message #26963
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 16, 1986 10:19 PM
A bug thread is a good idea, Brian! Here's what I've noticed so far. 1. A persistent bug in all versions to date: "list s" does not work from the CLI. "list s/" or "list s:" or "list :s" does. 2. ScrollLayers() was fixed in pt. When writing to an…
#24824 Looonnngg Text() Message #24860
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 1, 1986 6:42 AM
Yes, I'm using the Beta V1.2 software. That eliminated a scroll problem, and sharpened the Text problem.
#24824 Looonnngg Text() Message #24860
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming July 1, 1986 6:42 AM
Yes, I'm using the Beta V1.2 software. That eliminated a scroll problem, and sharpened the Text problem.
#Looonnngg Text() Message #24807
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming June 30, 1986 10:18 PM
I've been away from CI$ for awhile, and I'd like to bring up again a question I raised some time ago. I apologize if the answer is already sitting here and I just haven't seen it. I was trying to write and scroll text in an intuition, superbitmap window, 1008…
#Looonnngg Text() Message #24807
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming June 30, 1986 10:18 PM
I've been away from CI$ for awhile, and I'd like to bring up again a question I raised some time ago. I apologize if the answer is already sitting here and I just haven't seen it. I was trying to write and scroll text in an intuition, superbitmap window, 1008…
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming April 4, 1986 6:33 PM
George, could you clarify the copyright/public domain status of the stuff in the data libraries? In particular, should I refrain from posting ATERM5 to another system, such as the University of Michigan's MTS CRLT:AMIGA conference? In the case of ATERM5, there is neither a copyright nor a public domain declaration…
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming April 4, 1986 6:33 PM
George, could you clarify the copyright/public domain status of the stuff in the data libraries? In particular, should I refrain from posting ATERM5 to another system, such as the University of Michigan's MTS CRLT:AMIGA conference? In the case of ATERM5, there is neither a copyright nor a public domain declaration…
#12374- #GRONK Test Message #12505
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 23, 1986 11:55 AM
Of course you are right about the general inadvisability of turning off the interrupts for a long time in a multitasking environmnent. And although Thom's test program is not something you would expect to run when there could be competition, it does include an initial delay of several seconds to…
#12374- #GRONK Test Message #12505
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 23, 1986 11:55 AM
Of course you are right about the general inadvisability of turning off the interrupts for a long time in a multitasking environmnent. And although Thom's test program is not something you would expect to run when there could be competition, it does include an initial delay of several seconds to…
#12374- #GRONK Test Message #12505
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 23, 1986 11:55 AM
Of course you are right about the general inadvisability of turning off the interrupts for a long time in a multitasking environmnent. And although Thom's test program is not something you would expect to run when there could be competition, it does include an initial delay of several seconds to…
#12374- #GRONK Test Message #12505
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 23, 1986 11:55 AM
Of course you are right about the general inadvisability of turning off the interrupts for a long time in a multitasking environmnent. And although Thom's test program is not something you would expect to run when there could be competition, it does include an initial delay of several seconds to…
#GRONK Test Message #11929
From: David N. Williams The Amiga Forum · Tool Box March 18, 1986 10:21 PM
A few days ago, I submitted a short assembly language program (written by Thom Sterling) to DL1 (hardware), which demonstrates how the disk drive stepper motor rate can be set from software. It also exercises one of the Amiga's hardware timers, and incidentally demonstrates that the multitasking system can recover…
#11707 intuiton_lib???? Message #11726
From: David N. Williams The Amiga Forum · Tool Box March 16, 1986 6:04 PM
These and all the other library function offsets (from library base addresses) are in Amiga.Lib, with labels _LVOOpenWindow, _LVOCloseWindow, etc. You can "xref" these labels in your assembly language source code and they will get resolved at link time if you set the LIB parameter in the ALINK command line…
GRONNNNK! Message #11499
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 14, 1986 9:12 PM
A colleague, Thom Sterling (we are both associated with Errex, Inc.), has written a short assembly language Gronnnnk test. The result is that the disk drive step rate can indeed be set by software, with the currently installed rate apparently about one step in 2.5-3 milliseconds. His perception on his…
GRONNNNK! Message #11499
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 14, 1986 9:12 PM
A colleague, Thom Sterling (we are both associated with Errex, Inc.), has written a short assembly language Gronnnnk test. The result is that the disk drive step rate can indeed be set by software, with the currently installed rate apparently about one step in 2.5-3 milliseconds. His perception on his…
GRONNNNK! Message #11499
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 14, 1986 9:12 PM
A colleague, Thom Sterling (we are both associated with Errex, Inc.), has written a short assembly language Gronnnnk test. The result is that the disk drive step rate can indeed be set by software, with the currently installed rate apparently about one step in 2.5-3 milliseconds. His perception on his…
GRONNNNK! Message #11499
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 14, 1986 9:12 PM
A colleague, Thom Sterling (we are both associated with Errex, Inc.), has written a short assembly language Gronnnnk test. The result is that the disk drive step rate can indeed be set by software, with the currently installed rate apparently about one step in 2.5-3 milliseconds. His perception on his…
#10209 'veloper's blues Message #10249
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 3, 1986 7:05 PM
Thanks, a bug like the one you mention in ScrollLayer might explain my smearing problem. But it doesn't sound as if it explains my clip-at-left-butnot-at-right problem for text of smaller widths in still smaller windows. It's funny, what you say about the blitter limitation. I had already changed the maximum…
#10209 'veloper's blues Message #10249
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 3, 1986 7:05 PM
Thanks, a bug like the one you mention in ScrollLayer might explain my smearing problem. But it doesn't sound as if it explains my clip-at-left-butnot-at-right problem for text of smaller widths in still smaller windows. It's funny, what you say about the blitter limitation. I had already changed the maximum…
#BugList Message #10192
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 3, 1986 6:25 AM
Thanks for explaining the periods. So here's the part of the buglist that got garbled (see #10130 for the rest): There is a generic bug in the assembly language version of the include files, both in the listings in Rom Kernel Manual II, and in the source files (versions 1.0…
#BugList Message #10192
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 3, 1986 6:25 AM
Thanks for explaining the periods. So here's the part of the buglist that got garbled (see #10130 for the rest): There is a generic bug in the assembly language version of the include files, both in the listings in Rom Kernel Manual II, and in the source files (versions 1.0…
#BugList Message #10130
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 2, 1986 8:29 PM
Regarding Pete Baczor's call for bug reports to Commodore, I think people should be encouraged to send their bug lists to the Forum first, THEN to Pete. Maybe in the programming sector of the data library we could have a file called BugList (or several files if the need arises).…
#BugList Message #10130
From: David N. Williams Forum unknown · Programming March 2, 1986 8:29 PM
Regarding Pete Baczor's call for bug reports to Commodore, I think people should be encouraged to send their bug lists to the Forum first, THEN to Pete. Maybe in the programming sector of the data library we could have a file called BugList (or several files if the need arises).…