Re: (Assemblly language) newbie wants to ****t Atari 68k to 'C'

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 Beta Zero <beta_zero@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hi!  I'm relatively new to the Mac 'mini' and would like to ****t some
> vintage 68000 assembly language source over to 'C' on the Mac.  It's 
> pure 68000 code, and I regret to say I have zero experience with 'C.'

Then, bluntly, you're in for a huge project.

> Do you know of any good books to get, or scope out?

The very first starting point is "The C Programming Language." The ISBN 
is 0131103628.

> Even if they are 
> hard to come by?  I want to ****t some Atari ST code over to the Mac.  
> I have about a meg of 68000 source code - that's not much but it 
> represents several years of handtinkering, and fine-tuning.  It's 
> independent of GEM binding (I always had trouble with GEM, so I 
> manhandled the thing into existence, occasionally delving into 
> supervisor mode when necessary.).
> 
> I was wondering if it would be easier hand-tinkering this into shape
> for execution on a Mac.

The assembly? No. Not least because at the moment the active base of Mac 
users includes two radically different architectures, neither of which 
has an assembly language that looks more than superficially like 68k. 
The odds you'll beat modern compilers by hand-tinkering are miniscule. 
The odds you'll beat them significantly enough to eclipse the time taken 
hand-tinkering are essentially nil.

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