Re: [KOS] Dev on OS X

[Dan P. <ba...@al...>]

On Mar 14, Matthew McNeill wrote:

> I've been using KOS on my Mac for a while. It works very well.

Yeah, I was kind of surprised how easy it was to get a basic dev setup
going (especially with the precompiled binaries). Maybe 30 minutes including
downloading stuff and compiling KOS and dc-tool, and I was uploading 2ndmix
to my DC.

> I had used a coder's cable for a while and would upload files to 
> Marcus's serial slave with ZTerm. I have since bought a broadband 
> adaptor, and I use dc-tool. I'm not sure if I ever posted instructions 
> for getting it to compile in OS X.

I think there are still issues with that d_off thing, which I'm planning to
finish working out. I think dc-load/dc-tool need a new release before too
long anyway because there are some bugs and features that need
fixing/adding, like some occasional network hiccups, reading the IP address
from the flash, etc.

> Yes, you need a serial/USB adaptor to use a coder's cable. 
> Unfortunately there don't seem to be very many around that work with OS 
> X, unless I'm just not looking in the right places. I ended up getting 
> a relatively inexpensive ($20, I think) converter from iConcepts.

Yeah, that'd work. My question was kind of purposefully ambiguous because
what I have here is a beige G3 with old Apple serial ports plus a USB
PCI card. USB would be a better long term solution though.

> Interestingly enough, there seems to be some interest in using 
> Objective-C with KOS. Besides my port of the GNU runtime, someone over 
> at DCEmulation is working on a port of a free version of the Foundation 
> library, which is more or less compatible with the Foundation in OS X.

Yeah, I think that's way cool. I played with ObjC a little before and I
have to admit that while I don't like the syntax too much, I think it's
an incredibly awesome tool.