MODTracker audio replay on early 68k macs

[Snial]

Bumping this. I am going to port the ProTracker replayer to 68000 Macs one day, I just need to set up a development environment that compiles C code (for loader/GUI) and assembles assembly code (replayer/mixer), linking together the two into a single executable. Any suggestions for a dev setup for this purpose on System 6?

I played with Retro68 for the work I did on MODTracker, but frankly I'd choose THINK C 5 as it's a much cleaner, direct development environment. It works under System 6 and you can do inline assembly pretty well. You can write your VBL (replayer/mixer) task to work in inline assembly. Assembly stuff can see the 'C' symbols and vice versa. THINKC can do Object Orientation with a subset of C++ features including virtual methods and has a well respected Class Library (TCL) for writing OOP-based apps.

 

[8bitbubsy]

OK, so THINK C 5 it is, but I need an assembler as well. I don't want to inline the whole mixer and replayer, and I want both of those to be in 100% assembler for minimal overhead.

 

[Snial]

OK, so THINK C 5 it is, but I need an assembler as well. I don't want to inline the whole mixer and replayer, and I want both of those to be in 100% assembler for minimal overhead.

I understand. Maybe MDS could help there. But inline assembler is a very nice old-style inline assembler, where you just do stuff like _asm { and then type lines of assembly until you want to stop with } . It's not like GNU inline assembler. It sets up a stack frame, which costs a couple of instructions.


Which compiles to when you choose Source: Disassemble:

-cheers from Julz