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From: "Steve Dunn" <steve@backroom.tm>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Tool Support (was Re: New Yaroze Dev FAQ)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:00:26 +0100
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>
>On a related note, if I produce a game that makes use of MWDebugIO.lib, and
I
>want to enter it for Sony's monthly cover CD competition, what can I do?
Would I
>need to use the _DEBUG_IO switch to activate the standard OS open(), read()
etc
>functions for the CD version?
>
Bearing in mind SIOCONS can load CW exes, I'd suggest just before releasing
your code, to incorporate all files that need loading as static data in your
source.  Theres a tool 'bin2hex' that will do this.  Of course, if your
files exceed the amount of memory, you're stuffed.
bin2hex is available at http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~steved  To run it,
just give it a name of a file, like alien.tim and stream the output to a
filename of your choice, then simply include that filename in your build.
You can stream any amount of data into one source file.

Steve


Philip Gooch wrote in message <359A203A.58123CAB@easynet.co.uk>...
>
>
>Steve Dunn wrote:
>
>> With reference to previous threads regarding the 'bare minimum' tools
>> support for the Yaroze.
>> Most tools are still in a 'beta' state, with little or no updates.
Perhaps
>> the source to these tools could be released so members can do a bit of
DIY
>> work, as it looks at the moment like were not going to get ANY updates to
>> the tools available.
>> Anyone else share this opinion?
>> I'd certainly be prepared to help 'better' the current tools available.
>> Perhaps an SIOCONS variant that understood the MW file serving protocol.
>> This shouldn't be too difficult, and would certainly 'unite' the great
>> divide between Metrowerks and GNU users.
>>
>
>This is definitely what's needed. If SIOCONS supported the on-the-fly data
>loading available with the Metrowerks libraries this would be great.
>
>On a related note, if I produce a game that makes use of MWDebugIO.lib, and
I
>want to enter it for Sony's monthly cover CD competition, what can I do?
Would I
>need to use the _DEBUG_IO switch to activate the standard OS open(), read()
etc
>functions for the CD version?
>
>Phil
>