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- About this demo
-
- This archive is a demo of PowerFantasm V4, available from Lightsoft.
- PowerFantasm is a 68k/PowerPC assembly language development environment for Macintosh.
-
- What is 'Fantasm'?
-
- Fantasm is a very fast assembly language development system for the Apple
- Macintosh™ series of computers. We produce two versions of "Fantasm", Fantasm V4
- and PowerFantasm V4. Fantasm allows you to work with 68k assembly language only.
- PowerFantasm has additional features allowing you to work with both 68k and PowerPC
- assembly laguage. PowerFantasm, Fantasm and Eddie are written in 100% machine code
- for maximum speed.
-
- Fantasm will only run on 68020 and higher machines (i.e. 020, 68030, 68040, and all
- PowerPC machines). Both versions run on either normal or PowerMacs.
-
- What is 'Eddie'?
-
- Eddie is an fast text editor that is integrated with Fantasm v4.
-
- It will, in addition to lots of other features:
- - 'Chroma code' your 680x0 and PowerPC programs to make them more readable. These
- colours are user definable.
- - It allows hyperjumping to subroutines with a click of the mouse, even if
- they are in other files.
- - It allows global searching of all the files within the current files directory
- (ever wanted to know where that piece of text was in all those source files?).
- - allow you to build and assemble projects on the click of a button without
- leaving Eddie.
- - transfer to Fantasm seamlessly on the press of a button.
- - open multiple windows, with unlimited file sizes.
- - allows multiple automatic backup and save options to minimise the change of loss
- of your code (should you lose power, or another application crash).
- - show built in quick reference quides.
- - feedback in Eddie on errors. This also allows for hyperjumping when Fantasm
- comes across an error
-
- What is the difference between 68K Fantasm v4 and PowerFantasm v4?
-
- PowerFantasm can produce PPC and 68K code, where as 68K Fantasm can only produce 68K
- code.
-
-
-
- What does Fantasm produce?
-
- It currently produces code that can run on any 680x0 machine (including 68000's and 040's)
- and any PowerPC (including 32 bit 40x,601,603,604, and 64 bit 620 code). It can produce
- -NATIVE PowerPC- code in BOTH environments.
-
- To run Fantasm you need:
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- A Mac with at least an 020 processor - or a PowerMac (naturally enough).
-
- PCI PowerMacs are no problem as PowerFantasm is written on a PCI machine.
-
- For best display in Eddie, 256 colours is ideal, but anything else is ok.
-
- A few megs of RAM - 4 megs is ok for 68k and 8 megs is fine for PowerPC.
-
- System 7.xx.
- A couple of megs free on your hard disk.
-
-
- You may also find you need the following software:
-
- Macsbug (C) Apple - available from Apple direct on the internet. Point you web
- browser at <URL:ftp://ftp.austin.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area
- /Developer_Services/Tool_Chest/Testing_-_Debugging/
- Debuggers_-_dcmds/>. Also from BB's, PD/Shareware
- libraries, or your local Apple dealer.(But you'll need a suit
- before entering :-))
- The version you need is 6.5.2 or greater.
-
- Resedit (C) Apple - again available as per Macsbug.
-
-
- If you have difficulty getting hold of these (they are free) then contact Lightsoft.
-
-
- Distribution of this demo
-
- We have limited resources available for distribution. Fantasm is a specialist product
- not of interest to everybody. However, we feel it vitally important that the Macintosh
- community have access to a stand alone assembly language development system, that doesn't
- cost a fortune. If you have the opportunity to upload this demo to an on-line organisation,
- or shareware library, then please do, as it benefits not only us (Lightsoft), but
- the whole Mac community as a whole. Even if you have no interest in PowerPC assembly
- language, there are lots of other Mac users who do, and will thank you for your efforts,
- as we do in advance - thankyou.
-
- If you are using this demo for a CD, or uploading it to a Bulliten Board or on-line
- organisation, all we ask is you use the original archive intact, as every single file
- is important. If you are compiling a CD for commercial distribution, please contact us
- for the latest demo version. Thank you.
-
-
-
- Whats not included in this demo?
-
- Quite a lot due to size restraints. We wanted to get the demo out at under 1 Meg, but
- failed miserably. Both Fantasm and Eddie have time limits imposed on them, and
- various other facilities are missing. Lots of documentation has been left out.
-
-
- How is this demo crippled?
-
- Fantasm:
- No PowerPC FPU maths instructions allowed.
- Limits on size of code you can produce.
- No libraries source code.
- Limited number of PowerPC libraries.
- Limited number of PowerPC header files.
- No DLLs allowed apart from InterfaceLib.
- No assembling for Atari ST or outputting a straight binary file.
- Various other minor ommissions.
- User manual slightly cut down - the chapter "How to really use Fantasm is missing".
- No reference manual.
- No librarian.
- Only a few essential headers are provided.
-
-
- Eddie:
- Maximum of 9 windows open at any one time.
- No "search all files" feature.
- Wont boot after 30 days.
- Quits after 20 minutes running.
-
- General:
- Various ommisions in documentation, beginners guide and example source code etc.
- The user manual has been produced in black and white to save space.
-
- NOTE: Eddie and PowerFantasm work together quite closely. In this demo, if you boot
- PowerFantasm (which will auto launch Eddie) you will have to go to Eddie and Click OK
- in the alert before Fantasm will respond. We suggest you always launch the system by
- booting Eddie.
-
- Also Fantasm will occasionally throw a random unregistered alert at you, which means
- you will have to go to Fantasm to click "Ok". Eddie will tell you in it's status line
- when and if you need to do this.
-
- In the full version there are no hold ups of this nature.
-
- To launch PowerFantasm, boot Eddie. In this demo, always start Powerfantasm by booting
- Eddie. In the full version it doesn't matter how you start the system up.
-
- We suggest you read through the user manual first - simply double click the user
- manual - it is a self reading document.
-
- ©Lightsoft/TMACC 1996.
-