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Re: Motorola 68k Dev on an Amiga
« on: October 20, 2010, 03:13:19 PM »
Honestly, I'd just use the Devpac assembler. 68k assembly language is so advanced it's nearly a high-level language.
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Re: Motorola 68k Dev on an Amiga
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 04:00:30 PM »
Quote from: Vanilla;585872
AFAIK the MegaDrive had very similar graphics to the Amiga as well as the CPU so it shoud be even more compatible! :-)
Not so much. The Mega Drive/Genesis VDP is based around layers of tiles and free-moving sprites, like other game consoles, rather than the Amiga's free-form bitmap approach. That said, the Amiga can do tile-based graphics almost as easily with the blitter, so if you design with that in mind, it shouldn't be that hard to go between them.
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Re: Motorola 68k Dev on an Amiga
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2010, 12:52:21 AM »
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Many of them are also free where Devpac is not.
Feh, HiSoft is a web-design company now and nobody sells it anymore; Devpac is abandonware.
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Re: Motorola 68k Dev on an Amiga
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2010, 01:32:33 AM »
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There is no such thing as abandonware.
Well, you tell me where I can buy a new copy of Devpac, and I'll buy it.
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