Re: Idea: Multitasking graphical OS for the GS

[Tristan Mumford <mydotname@geemail.com>]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:32:09 -0800, Eric Rucker wrote:

> 
> That's actually exactly the idea I had, and someone thought of it long
> ago, and did one for GNO already. ;)
> 
> It was called DRWM.

So, um. Yeah.
This is where the whole uncomfortable subject starts to surface about 
whether the effort is worth it.

For example, I'd love to port the palmOS API (libraries etc) to another 
platform because I think it is great to program with. But in the end, the 
effort probably isn't worth it.

The whole subject of porting vs. creating all seems to come down to the 
availability of C compilers. Most portable apps out there are in C, 
whether we like it or not.

With all this talk about half broken C compilers for the '816, how come 
this link wasn't posted:
http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/apple.cabi.net/Languages.Programming/
lccgs.012_Folder/

Sorry about the 80col exceeding, and possible necessity to copypaste.

It seems to have the toolchain there compiled for DOS (bleh), and from 
what I read on someones SNES dev blog, I think that there may be a 
function param passing problem with it which necessitated the individual 
to use a global for passing.