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web page last updated Sunday 20th April 2003 130am
The other web-page contains the original
pre-release Ghostscript 8.00 download. As a result of feedback I am now
working on a recompile using a new compiler gcc2.95.3-4 (replacing
gcc2.7.0) and also using new sources which include a Turboprint driver
and graphics card support (both absent from the original download).
EVERYTHING ON THIS WEB-PAGE REFERS TO THIS NEW RECOMPILATION ATTEMPT and
not to the above original download.
I have succesfully installed the new compiler and have managed to
compile + link
68020 +NO FPU +OS3.0 + ixemul.library optimized version.
This new gs8 will have a total replacement of all the
existing amiga#? devices. Everything is replaced by
multiple mechanisms for printing, viewing and conversion to iff.
NEW BASE MACHINE: I have decided that from now on the base-machine
that I will be targetting is:
68020 + NO FPU + OS3.0 + ixemul.library .
The above original download really is 68000 + NO FPU + OS2.0 + noixemul.
68020 is a much nicer CPU than the 68000 eg 68000 doesnt have 32-bit multiplication
and division machine-code commands: probably quite important commands for GS8.
I have often had probs in the past when I have downloaded ixemul programmes,
but have decided to use ixemul.library because
this avoids having to fix the cross-platform source code of GS8. Such use of
ixemul.library will be tested fully before release to pre-empt any ixemul-blues.
The OS3.0 requirement is probably only relevant to any future changes to the
viewer-functions of GS8.
:Choice of ixemul.library is for a smoother fuller recompile.
(sounds like an advert except each of those adjectives is precisely chosen)
Further recompiles for 68040, 68060 and maybe even 68030 will follow: but
first priority is to get a smoothly functioning base 68020 version, this is
guaranteed to be the most difficult step. First things first and one step at a
time.
The Turboprint, graphics-card, 68040, 68060 support will have to be tested
by other people as I dont have any of these: I can create the code but not
run and test it.