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From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Re: Atari ST Graphics and C
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Date: 29 Mar 91 05:51:06 GMT
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[In article <1991Mar28.204840.4726@sarah.albany.edu>,
     ad0834@leah.albany.edu (Andy Dickinson) writes ... ]

> 	I'm wondering if anyone could give me some information on
> Atari ST AES/VDI calls.  I am using the Sozobon C development system
> and I have the bindings for these calls, but I can't seem to find
> anything on what the calls actually are!  Everything I read seems to
> assume that I own a copy of the ST Development Toolkit, which I don't.
> 
> 	Does anyone know of any documentation I might be able to find
> online which would explain how to use these calls?

Online? Not much. The Tim Oren ``Pro GEM'' series should be available
at atari.archive.umich.edu; it's a GEM programming tutorial. You also 
should make a point of grabbing all the GEM C code you can find.

(This is a good point at which to insert another appeal for authors 
of PD programs to publish their source code.)

Books to look for include the Abacus ``Atari ST GEM Programmer's
Reference'' and Bantam's ``Atari ST Application Programming'' (which is
out of print).

Try your college library and don't forget about interlibrary loans.

Using the Bantam book as a guide, I wrote a set of AES bindings a couple
of years ago and fully intended to complete the job with VDI bindings and
documentation, but set the project aside when Ian Lepore's GEMfast
libraries appeared. Maybe I should have done the docs anyway.

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