[GEM Development] GEM not going forward... Comments?

[david johnson]

Hello Michael,

I agree Turbo C works well as does djgpp and John's binding.   As I am not a programmer, Heinz Rath's code was simple enough to give me enough confidence to try writing some programs.  So a pretty good first step for me.  I am currently interested in working with my port of 4tH to GEM and playing with that. Thanks for the note about your library and the reference and I'll definitely take a look (though I'll need to work on my German!) as I've still not really addressed the issues you raised.  

Thanks,
David Johnson


--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Michael Bernstein <pcgem at mbernstein.de> wrote:
From: Michael Bernstein <pcgem at mbernstein.de>
Subject: Re: [GEM Development] GEM not going forward... Comments?
To: "GEM Development" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 5:04 AM

Hi david,

> The easiest starting point that I have found it to use the Pacific-C
> GEM bindings from John Elliott and the "text window" routine
(tw.zip)
> from Heniz Rath -- http://www.geocities.com/heinz_rath/

For the first step ok.

But i would suggest to use Turbo C. You can download the old compilers
from the museum from Borland for free. As a GEM library you can use my
library from http://www.mbernstein.de from the download section. My
library has the advantage, that the API is build after a standard set
by DR (!) and Atari for portable GEM development. This API was
published by the Geiß twins in the german book "Vom Anfänger zum
GEM-Profi". This book was a introduction in write GEM applications for
both Atari ST and IBM-PC!

I had taken a look at the "text window" from Heinz Rath because i
liked the idea of a console window. For a first step ok. But i missed
some features. There was no buffering for automatic redraw of the
window. There was also no code present for handling of resizing. If
you resize the window to a smaller size, the slider should be used
and only the right parts of the text should be shown. But code for
this feature was also not present.

Best regards
Michael
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