Are we in danger of restricting SMSQE to be assembled with Qmac restricting ourselves to 68000 code, casting aside all those QLers who have invested in a Super Gold Card, QXL, Q40 or Q60? You are not going to be able to do some serious number crunching if you are not going to use the floating point extensions. You are not going to stop the QL crashing without using the memory management unit of the 68030+ chips and instruction set. Gwass is the only assembler which can cope with 68020+ and floating point instructions. Furthermore Gwass is maintained and can be extended and corrected as required, whereas Qmac is not and you are going to have to put up with its errors and restrictions. George has offered to convert the macros. What better offer could you have?
If you are not going to use these features there does not seem much point in upgrading SMSQE. Just treat the QL like a crystal radio. Something to nostalgically recall the pioneering days of computing, or leave to the local museum to be looked at by our grandchildren. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Lenerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] SMSQ Source... > > On 6 Jul 2002, at 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > GWASS was altered a few years ago to allow macros of this sort. This was to > > enable the large set of macros used in QMAC for Pointer Programs to be used > > in GWASS, after modification. > > > > If you send some of these macros to me I'll see how they can be amended. > > > > It shouldn't be too difficult. > > I'd prefer GWASS to be amended! > > Wolfgang > > George > > > > > ----------------- > www.wlenerz.com
