On (02 Mar 95) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to All... > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 13:58:47 +0100 (MET) >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" at Mar 2, 95 09:14:09 am
> Hi Colin! > Long time no see.... >> There will be a small write up in next month's FORMAT on C, and although >> the technical details have yet to be sorted out, it's planned for release >> sometime in April for about 15 ukp (hopefully), which compares VERY >> favourably to other C compilers. >> When the press release is prepared for the magazines, I'll post a copy of >> it here - in case anyone else is interested. > Sure we'r interested. What about a preview? Will it be a full > featured C, or small C? How about the posibility to hand > optimise code, ie. have assembly IN the C source? And at 15 quid, > it'll probably be another smash. > BTW: How are the money in SAM Software? Can I expect to make money > if I write a superb game (this is all hypothetical, though!) released > through FRED? Ah hem, I was under the impression that this sam native C was simply a port of the Small C compiler to the SAM I/O system and altered the Assembler output to a form compatable with a sam native assembler! If that is correct then is it ethical to release such a PORT of a FREE compiler as COMERCIAL software? Even releasing it SHAREWARE would be pushing the limits of fair play a bit! But at least it'd be more reasonable... I think 15 quid for a FREE compiler is extracting the urine unless that is paying for an Assembler and Editor owned by the person who's selling it as a package with the compiler thrown in for no extra cost. Now if the C compiler was entirly the sellers OWN work from scratch and it was DESIGNED for the SAM from the ground-up and handled the banked memory in such a manner that it was totally compatable with SamDos/MasterDos memory allocation schemes then 15ukp would be an acceptable price for just the compiler. >> Colin Macdonald >> FRED Publishing > -- > | Frode Tennebo | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | ECP/PT, CERN, Switzerland | http://www.hiMolde.no/~frodet | > | Phone: +33 50 28 26 17 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ... If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL! -- |Fidonet: Johnathan Taylor 2:2501/307.9 |Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
