Re: Hovercraft on Cosmic Chasm hardware

Must have been fun doing that... 20 or so years ago! :)

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From: "Frank Palazzolo" <palazzol@comcast.net>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:03 PM
Subject: RE: VECTOR: Hovercraft on Cosmic Chasm hardware

>
> Hello,
>
> One could use gcc on linux or windows, set up for a m68k target. Search
for
> "crossgcc" and "m68k" in google to see some pointers.
>
> I took a peek at this code at one point, and I wasn't convinced that all
the
> source code for the libraries had been recovered. I could be mistaken,
> though.
>
> Even if all the code it there, there would definitely be some challenges:
> - figure out which of the versions on the disk is the latest stuff
> - try to compile the c files with gcc
> - convert the assembly files to a syntax compatible with as
> - modify the asm functions to make sure the pass args in a way compatible
> with gcc
> - set up the linker environment to something compatible with the memory
map
> of Hovercraft
> - convert the resulting images (coff/s-record, etc) to something raw
binary
> for an emulator or hardware
> - hope like hell there wasn't any time-critical code you broke :)
>
> Unfortunately, not something I have time for at the moment...
>
> -Frank
>
>
>
>
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