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From: dodgson@cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Developing for the Lynx
Summary: the last I heard from Atari...
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Date: 16 Jan 90 13:40:38 GMT
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In article <8581@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) writes:
> All this talk about the Lynx has made me curious.  If, as seems to be the
> case, the Amiga is currently the preferred development platform, is it
> possible for those of us with Amigas to hack around writing Lynx programs?
> Is Atari making the development systems available, or keeping it proprietary
> for the time being?

	The people at Atari will be happy to SELL you a development system
as they build them.  Can you afford $5000.00 for a custom board that
plugs into your Amiga?  I couldn't, therefore I didn't get one.  This
wonderful little board contains all the circuitry of a Lynx (including
display) and connects to the parallel port of the Amiga.  The Amiga
runs several programs (isn't multitasking nice?) that allows the programmer
to make changes to the code, recompile/assemble and download to the board
at the same time.  There are also debugging facilities built in.
> 
> Anyone know what the "official" programming language is for it?  I've never
> believed that C could work real well on a 6502, but I can't see people filling
> 2 Meg cartridges with Assembler (yeah, I know, most of it's probably image
> data, but still...)   Is there a Lynx simulator on the Amiga?

	I didn't find out what language was supported, but a 4 MHz 65C02
can compete with an 8 MHz 68000 in execution cycles, so don't sell it short.
A few 16 MHz coprocessors don't hurt either.  As far as a simulator, the board
executes all the code, so simulation on the Amiga screen isn't needed.

notice: I got this info direct from the Chicago Atari office - no speculations,
no rumors, this is what the person told me.
		Harry
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