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From: Alex Herbert <aherbert@ndirect.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior
Subject: Re: PSComUtil
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 18:43:05 +0000
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I think you may have missed the point Graham.  Yes, in the perfect world AR
would be the standard and we'd all be using it.  But, AR isn't official, CW
is.  Many CW owners use MWDebugIO and thus their code can't be run from
SIOCONS.  That's the problem we're trying to overcome.

Herbs :)


Craig Graham wrote:

> Philip Gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk> wrote in article
> <35C5D332.E2E678AA@easynet.co.uk>...
> >   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.
>
> Yawn. ARS 4 ever.
> (GNU + CodeWarrior fileserver support).
>
> > 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.
>
> I cann't believe folks actually do that. PsCOMUtil doesn't drop you back to
> the
> bricks screen when a program exits, but you can re-send a PXE without doing
> a hard reset, and your TIM's will still be there.
>
> > Phil
>
> You should invest in a AR so the time to load TIM's & models stops being an
> issue.
>
> Craig.
>
> BTW. Watch out for a new Win95 version of ARS coming soon from the original
> author
> that's about 300% faster than the DOS FileServer.