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From: Philip Gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: PSComUtil
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 16:11:47 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Alex Herbert wrote:

> This posting is directed at Metroworks.
>
> Please would Metroworks be kind enough to allow PSComUtil to be
> distributed freely amongst Yaroze members.  It was a great idea to
> include the MWDebugIO library with CW for Yaroze, but it means that
> non-CW users can't run our code.  If PSComUtil could be downloaded from
> the SCEE/SCEA/SCEI sites it would solve this problem.  It may even
> encourage a few more people to opt for CW over GNU.  Please have a
> serious think about it.
>
> Any other Yaroze members want to back me up on this one?
>
> Herbs

  I think I suggested something similar sometime ago. It's definitely the
way forward, and Metrowerks have nothing to
lose and everything to gain by it - i.e. more copies of Codewarrior sold
when people realise what can be done with the
excellent MW libraries.

I really missed Codewarrior/PSComUtil when I was on the Net Yaroze Short
Course last week, though SIOCONS is
great for one thing - it allows you to do a 'soft' reset of the Playstation
and retain all your downloaded TIMs etc in
memory so that you only need to redownload your executable each time. Great
when debugging - a real timesaver. It's
an incredible pain having to keep 'hard' resetting the Yaroze and
downloading everything each time with PSComUtil and
adds hours to debugging and development time.

Phil