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Title: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: on October 26, 2002, 03:20:31 PM

Just for a bit of nostalgia, I visited the SASG website today. It was a bit sad to see it hadn't been updated since 1998. I suppose Stefan Stunz and Martin Huttenloher might have moved on to better things, but it would be really good if somebody could take on the SASG since MUI is such an Amiga institution.

Title: Re: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: Kronos on October 26, 2002, 03:28:04 PM

Well MUI has been further developed, ported to C (from 68k-asm) and
pushed to version 4 by Ralph Schmidt for use with MorphOS.

"Thanks" to Strunzi's non-exclusive licencing these changes will
also be available for OS4 if and when Hyperion manages to compile
them. (no flame-bait, just factual as it is not running yet (AFAIK))

Title: Re: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: nOw2 on October 26, 2002, 03:40:43 PM

When was MUI ever written in assembler? :)  I don't have any inside line on the sources but the API has always been C based.

You're thinking of the modifications needed to produce portable (PowerPC) binaries.

Title: Re: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: Kronos on October 26, 2002, 03:43:03 PM

@nOw2

The MUI-core was allways written in asm for performance reasons,
and only the high-level parts were written in C.

Title: Re: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: Elektro on October 26, 2002, 06:57:17 PM

Parts of it were also written in basic and logo...

 :-D  :-D

Title: Re: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: Kronos on October 26, 2002, 07:01:56 PM

@Elekto
No you got that wrong as every Kindergarten-kid knows that
Cobol,BCPL and Fotran_77 are the right answers.

Title: Re: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: redrumloa on October 26, 2002, 08:22:58 PM

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these changes will also be available for OS4 if and when Hyperion manages to compile
them. (no flame-bait, just factual as it is not running yet (AFAIK))

I have a gut feeling OS4 will be finished faster than you expect. Only a gut feeling... but I have a BIG gut;-)

Title: Re: Whatever happened to SASG?
Post by: hnl_dk on October 26, 2002, 08:28:18 PM

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I have a gut feeling OS4 will be finished faster than you expect. Only a gut feeling... but I have a BIG gut ;-)

I have the same feeling :-D

It's a nice feeling ;-)