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From: bezanson@gumby.WISC.EDU (Brian Bezanson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Graphics Magician
Message-ID: <421@gumby.WISC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 04:27:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: gumby.421
Posted: Thu Oct 16 04:27:18 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 18:59:59 EDT
References: <254@hao.UUCP> <419@gumby.WISC.EDU>
Organization: Manta Software Corporation
Lines: 38
Keywords: TML Pascal, quality
Summary: Ooops, made a mistake w/MacPascal-LP

In article <419@gumby.WISC.EDU>, bezanson@gumby.WISC.EDU (Brian Bezanson) writes:
 Hey, I'm replying to myself.  Here is some new light on what I found out
tonight w/Graphics magician, MacPascal & Lightspeed Pascal.

>                                                                ...The Pascal 
> routines griped about inline routines and the MDS example wanted non-existant
> Macros.  As far as Lisa-=>TML pascal, it came with a Lisa .rel type module
> and declarations.  Since I never used Lisa Pascal, I didn't know if the
> Lisa .rel type file could be transfered (still don't-any help on this).
 
> Well I did receive a new copy, but it was identical to the original - 
> missing files and non-functioning demos.
> I'll write again - prompted by your message here, to see if I can get 
> anything done.  The graphics magician had a lot of potential when used
> under a powerful language (TML or Lightspeed Pascal). 

Well, it looks like I made a BIG mistake in my complaint, it does work
with MacPascal 2.1 and Lightspeed, but you do need to modify the file
to include the volume name and you have to rename the appropriate test files
that the program needs.  I went and rechecked this, so yes the program does
work under MacPascal and LP, LP is almost TOO FAST in execution.  But there
is no way to have it work with TML, except writing MDS glue code.  But since
I'm not much of an assembly person (yet-learning stages now), I don't have the
knowledge to do that.  I did have a friend who is very good in 68000 assembly
on the Mac play with it, he got the program to compile, but when it ran it
would bomb at different memory locations.  We gave up after a half hour
since at least the MacPascal demo ran.  I am looking forward to using the
package now and seeing what it can do, but it still makes me mad that
Polarware couldn't have provided better documentation (only stuff on
programming is in MacWrite file - small) and the examples aniamtion files
that the program wants aren't even on the disk!

I still hope to hear from penguin about calling the routines from MDS (and
maybe TML pascal/MPW).

-- 
Brian Bezanson {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,topaz,harvard}!uwvax!gumby!bezanson
Manta Software Corp.				  bezanson@gumby.wisc.edu