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From: Philip Gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Tool Support (was Re: New Yaroze Dev FAQ)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 14:52:19 +0100
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Steve Dunn wrote:

> >
> >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 - ignore my previous post. This works like a charm. Would you be willing
to release the source code so that I can produce a Mac version (I assume it's
written in standard C?)

Phil