See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

re: See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

George Nakos — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:01:46 GMT

David,

Thank you for this!

BTW: You shouldn't have said the bit about the old hard drive :) Anway, if you ever find it and want some help accessing it please do not hesitate to contact me!

Best regards and again thanks a lot,
George

re: See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

Stuart Dootson — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:23:00 GMT

That'll have been the last version of DevPac I ever used - I used the Spectrum version as well. Didn't HiSoft do a C compiler for the Spectrum - I seem to remember using that as well - possibly not quite the compilation times I'm used to now...

The 10M thing is scary as well - I look at the .pch file and I'd be doing well to get one of those on a 10M disk!

re: See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

lp — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:47:06 GMT

Very cool! I still use Devpac. It's nice to see old source code released. Hope you find the old HD. ;o)

Thanks for donating the source to the Atari community, it's a very nice gesture.

re: See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

andypennell — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:16:00 GMT

Before someone (Tim?) posts another example of my early work, I will: this is probably the worst picture ever taken of me, plus it was published too. It was during my Bill Gates period, and you can see it, in context, at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr10/yr10_19.htm

re: See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

andypennell — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:21:10 GMT

I forgot to say: to actually build X-Debug you'll need Lattice C and a version of GenST that can do 680x0 instructions. The makefile and scripts in the zip are for a Unix-ish shell I used to use, whose name escapes me but it was Scandinavian.

Stuart: yes, HiSoft did a C compiler for the Spectrum. I didn't work on any of their Spectrum stuff, I was just a customer of those. I helped them add Microdrive support to their tools one summer, and then they hired me to do the 680x0 stuff (on the QL originally).

re: See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

Rob — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:16:52 GMT

That is funny, for the last 20 years I assumed you wrote all HiSoft's stuff.

re: See my early work: X-Debug from 1992

andypennell — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:35:27 GMT

Thanks Rob! Way to make me feel real old...