eBay: Blizzard PPC accelerator (mint in box)

[Karlos]

Aww. I never got any mints in mine when I bought it :-(

Heh, I wonder what use the registration card is these days? :-D

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:
Oooo... I bet 'at wurf summit! :crazy:


-Edit- I'll have to dig my box out, I never did actually look at what was on the CD-rom :-?

PowerUP developer material and stuff. There was also a lot of archived web content IIRC.

I got frustrated with the developer stuff on the CD pretty quickly. Fortunately, VBCC came along quite soon :-)

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

Karlos wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Yeah, I used to use vbcc... That experience put me off PPC programming for life :-D

I dunno, I think you are being a bit unfair on it. Admittedly earlier versions were a bit buggy, but I found later versions pretty good and more than capable of outpacing gcc in code performace terms. I also found it quite handy for making quick mixed binaries - you have to manually handle your context switches in WOS though. Although I preferred this anyway, as I used to group OS calls (such as updating the display, switching buffers, gathering inuition messages into a local queue etc) into single 680x0 functions that required just one context switch.