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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: More than 512K? (Re: comp.binaries.amiga (was Re: Picture swap))
Keywords: binaries, useful, C, compiler
Message-ID: <2149@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 02:52:48 GMT
References: <8806161902.AA16559@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <417@jc3b21.UUCP> <6714@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
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In article ... hunt@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HUNT LEE CAMERON) writes:
> Maybe not weird, but from my experiences people who have C compilers are
> far and few between.  Not to mention that you really need more that 512K
> to compile large programs.

It's nice, but I developed all the game playing and most of the graphics code
for tracers with a 512K amiga and two drives. You do need that second drive.
Karl had 4 MEG for the incredible audio code and the utility routines (like
IFF reading and copy protection), but I was able to compile the whole thing
(his code and mine) on said 512K amiga with two drives, even compiling each
file into RAM:, copying it back to df1:, and then linking into RAM:.

Tracers is not a small program.

So, not only did I have enough RAM to compile with 512K, I had enough RAM to
compile to the RAMdisk. So much for "you really need more than 512K".

Of course I would truly *hate* to lose my second-hand 4 MEG board now, but
an Amiga with 512K is quite usable.
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