What the heck…..??
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I had the wildest surprise today. When my wife got home yesterday, she
said that someone where she works had given here some Amiga disks for me. I
expected a bunch of 3.5 disks.
I now have about ten original Amiga 5.25 floppy disks with labels like
"Lattice 'C' cross compiler", "Lattice 'C' Cross development headers V1.0"
and "Assembler Cross Development Headers". Are these disks for an IBM PC?
They're in Commodore disk sleeves, and the copyright notices on the disk
labels are marked "Copyright 1985 Commodore-Amiga, Inc."
Even I can figure out these are cross development tools, 🙂 but I always
thought that early Amiga cross development was done on Sun workstations.
What the heck do these things work in??
Steve
The original Amiga developer's package included a cross compiler that ran
on the IBM PC. Those are IBM disks, of a very early version of the Lattice
C compiler. I don't think they've ever updated it. By the way, Manx makes
cross compilers, too, but they've never released a PC version of the Amiga
compiler. I think it would be interesting to compare development times on
a souped-up 386 machine, versus the Amiga 3000. 🙂 I used it for a
while, but seem to remember some problems with the "\" character in
#include file specifications.
Steve,
I've got 3 or 4 sets of those — the original developers got them.
Steve, have you tried them on MS-DOS? I think there was a
cross-development tool for that, too.
……Betty
Wasn't the really *really* early work done on a Sage? I used to sell Sage
systems. (Well, I never actually got anyone to buy one! 😉 )
Chris -)—–
Don't know!
……Betty
Chris,
Back when the Amiga was in the "black box" stage development for it was
done on Sages and Suns.
-sja
Steve,
MS-DOS. You could do development on an XT or AT and then download
the code to an A1000.
There is also a file transfer program on the disk. I've got the
notes around here somewhere on how to use it.
The original OS development was done on a Sun (or at least some of
it was).
Don
I have em too:)