Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!rutgers!hjuxa!Fiacha of Glencar
From: Fiacha of Glencar@hjuxa.UUCP (Fiacha of Glencar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sozobon C: I need graphics ability!  How to?
Message-ID: <1290@hjuxa.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 89 13:51:04 GMT
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From article <5377@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, by tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup):
> From an article by mwtilden@watmath.waterloo.edu (M.W.Tilden, Hardware):
>> I recently got Sozobon all loaded and was annoyed to discover that
>> the documentation makes NO MENTION of how to execute graphics!  
>> 
> 	*  Get ahold of the GEMQ libraries.  This is a set of AES and
> 	   VDI bindings for Sozobon C (actually, I think they were written
> 	   for Alcyon, but they work).  I got my copy off of GEnie, but
> 	   check around, it's probably in other places as well.
> 
Even easier, use the GEMFAST libraries posted in the binaries topic.

I tested them, to a limited extent, last night and they worked fine for me.

My objection to the GEMQ libraries is that AESQ needs a magic table in the
startup module that defines the number of arguments to each of the AES calls.
Without a copy, I don't see how you are going to get the calls to work, and
I didn't see the table in the DASTART.S routine posted here a few days ago.

One good thing to take from the GEMQ routines is the rectangle stuff, i.e.
most of the routines in UTILQ.S

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