Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Gerrit Goossen Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior Subject: Re: PSComUtil - Demo Disc not CW Friendly Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:04:38 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 46 Message-ID: <35E8A520.3591@funnytown.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.165.241.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) >Christoph Luerig wrote: > >> Alex Herbert wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> Hi Alex! >> >> To my experience CW does not seem to be that official. Because I got words >>from Sony, that they could not consider a game of mine wrote with CW for the >>demo disc, until I rewrite it for GCC. There seems to be a principle >>difference in the executable format between GCC and CW what makes trouble >>to their wrapper program they are using on the demo disc. >> >> Christoph Luerig > >If this is true, this is very disturbing!An official announcement from >SCEE would be appreciated. > >Phil Is it just me, or does it seem ever weirder that the "_psstart.c" included with CW is *specifically tailored* to work with demo discs? ie: > /* Pull RA from the stack so that we can return */ > /* to the launcher */ > /* (note: this does not return to the Net Yaroze */ > /* "brick screen". However, if this program were called */ > /* from a demo disc, it needs to terminate this way */ > > lw ra, 8(sp) > addiu sp, sp, 8 > jr ra > nop Perhaps the Yaroze demo discs use a "different" demo launcher that isn't expecting this? Maybe with some tweaking to '_psstart.c' CW users could have a shot at those demo discs too... - Gerrit Note to Sony: These things make a difference... especially to us Mac users!