Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jb10320 From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: APW C Package vs. Orca C Package Message-ID: <1990Oct10.194133.24263@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 10 Oct 90 19:41:33 GMT References: Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 41 In article ghost@bucsf.bu.edu (Jay Adelson) writes: > >The APW package in the APDA catalog includes the APW environment and the >C compiler. Also there appears to be some kind of Tools and Utilities >disk (maybe even two of them.) > >Does the new Orca (or soon to be released orca) or the old Orca environment >include these tools and utilities (i.e. DeRez, RezEdit and GSLink)? No, but the APW utilities are compatible with ORCA. They're priced kinda steep, $50 I think. But you get a large-ish manual. >I ask this because I'm interested in purchasing orca, but from my experience, >Orca C had no utilities to link in assembler / other code, or use >a resource editor. Granted, I could use the resouce editor from another >program (TML Pascal, Genesys) but I would rather use the latest Resource >utilities endorsed (?) by apple. The new Orca Linker 1.2.2 (ZapLink) can link in assembly code, and all previous versions also had that ability. You can also do an "asm {}" statement to insert assembly directly into C. The resource editor has always been missing. GSLink is much more powerful, in that you can control placement of individual code segments inside load segments, but it's much slower. (Correct me if I'm wrong about the segment thingy.) >Does this make any sense or am I just a babbling buffoon? A baffling baboon? :-) :-) >Don't answer that. Sorry.. >[ Jay Adelson | BIX: j.adelson ] [ T.G.C. ] >[ ghost@bucsf.bu.edu | Channel One: ] [ 1039 Commonwealth Ave. #18 ] >[ GEnie: J.ADELSON1 | Jay Adelson ] [ Boston, MA. 02215-1008 ] -- Jawaid Bazyar | Blondes in big black cars look better wearing Senior/Computer Engineering | their dark sunglasses at night. (unk. wierdo) jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | The gin, the gin, glows in the Dark! | (B O'Cult) Apple II Users Unite! Storm the New Product Announcement and Demand Justice!