Heart of the Alien: How to compile.

[fishy_fiz]

That 68k port was done by a friend of mine. I have a copy of it still. I'l upload to aminet if anyone is interested?

As for compiling stuff yourself, probably the easiest "entry point" for 68k development is to find a copy of louises gcc dev setup. Its not hard to find if you do a bit of googling. There's both an hdf and files archive version. The only "problem" is that its an entire copy of an os setup + dev tools/environment, so contains copyrighted material. Up to you as to whether its a detriment or not, but I thought I should mention it.
Nice little setup though, lots of good tools and docs.

[fishy_fiz]

I'll ask him next time I speak to him about the sources.
 As for whether or not it was difficult, both me and him were both starting to learn around that time and would often exchange war stories (our attempts at compiling things) and the main issue I recall him having were endian based. This would suggest an x86 AROS port may be a little easier than 68k/ppc ports although being that at the time neither of us were gurus and he still managed I dont expect it'd be too difficult.

As for differences in dev environments, theyre not drastically different. Learn the basic theory for one and its just a matter of learning the subtle differences in the sdks. This goes double for software using things like SDL, where the hosts apis dont much influence things (in terms of compiling at least).

[fishy_fiz]

lol. Nah, it was real    Was over at aros-exec.org in this threads counterpart there, but it seems to have been pushed off the front page  
"Glitchy" however would be insulting to all the glitchy software out there. It's unstable to a point I have to wrestle with it to even get it to run, and even when it does a crash is just around the corner. To be honest Im surprised it even does as much as it does with all the nasty stuff I did to build it  

In regards to 68k port, I cant find it on my hdds (doesnt mean its not there still, they were massively disorganised until recently). I'll mail the guy who did it and see if I can get him to send it to me (along with sources if he sill has them).

[fishy_fiz]

Hehe. Ive just been a hardcore amiga guy for a long time, and a compulsive hoarder of files. Over the years it all builds up. I currently have over 10gigs of amiga documents, books scans, software manual scans/guides,etc. let alone software Have also been a bit of an IRC addict for many years so got to know other like minded people and developers. As much as anything though I think there's just been a bunch of topics that Im interested in recently here

kind regards,
St.Fish    

[fishy_fiz]

Hiya Lempkee, ltns

It was Frak who did the OS3.x version that was mentioned earlier in the thread (Unfortunately he no longer had a copy)
I miss the old #Amiga_overmind days