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And almost every attempt of trying to build the G++ linker would also fail on. One of the bigger issues is that I would always find libraries in this olb file format, that the linker from Sozobon wouldnвЂ™t recognize.

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ItвЂ™s a far more manual process to compile as I have to invoke each stage manually, but at least IвЂ™m finally able to get things going. It took far longer just to find the libsвЂ¦ But it was still fun to get that one running as well. I donвЂ™t know why people couldnвЂ™t either package them together or at least in the same directory. It took way too long to find a working dlibs. In the same effort, IвЂ™ve had the same luck with sozobon. Building anything native under emulation was an impossibility.

Although I donвЂ™t know what the deal is, it seems the larger the GCC based program is the higher chance itвЂ™ll just crash on exit or force the next program to crash. I even got the 1987 Infocom interpreter running. So maybe I can complete the chain for Mint and MachTen.

The one good thing that came out of this experience is that since I am building form i386 to 68000 I found that this setup uses the G++ linker which has endian swapping. And sure there is a MS-DOS version that the MS-DOS Player can run, but get ready for 8.3 filename renaming. All these ancient fileformats sure donвЂ™t help anything. And sure there is but despite being able to build it on multiple platforms it never does anything useful. Not only is it just overall worse than ZIP, but there are 2 incompatible compression methods, like the introduction of LZD, which any of the good versions of UNZOO canвЂ™t deal with. Speaking of files, ZOO has to be the worst compressor ever. Just as I canвЂ™t for the life of me find the old original GNU libc. ItвЂ™s kind of annoying how all these seemingly tiny files get purged to save a few kb. Which has a lot of GCC2 hooks so I cheated on getting the 1.30 hello world by using the 2.5.8 pre-processor. Instead I got lucky with all three for pl98. There survives a pl95 binary and source package, but again no includes. There is a GCC 1.30 file on all the usual GNU mirrors but to save a few kb it has no headers, instead it wants you to reuse the ones from the 1.25 binary distribution. Amazingly the hardest thing to source is the include files. The reason why this was so freaking hard was how so much of key parts of gcc for the ST have been purged and what remains being scattered to the winds. I guess itвЂ™s not surprising that all the attention is to MiNT & MINIX rather than the native platform. I didnвЂ™t have much to go on, as ancient threads like this, or this end up unanswered or without any good conclusion.

And not because of gcc or surprisingly ancient binutils. The ST was superseded by the Atari STE, Atari TT, Atari MEGA STE, and Falcon computers.This was a lot harder than it should have been.

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Thanks to its built-in MIDI ports, the ST enjoyed success for running music sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among amateurs and well-known musicians alike. In some markets, particularly Germany, the machine gained a strong foothold as a small business machine for CAD and desktop publishing work. The system's two color graphics modes are only available on the former while the highest-resolution mode needs the monochrome monitor. The ST was sold with either Atari's color monitor or the less expensive monochrome monitor.

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In fact, the Stacy (the laptop version of the Atari ST) was the first and only way to own a laptop running Mac OS at the time since Apple did not offer one until much later.

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The hardware was so similar to Apple's Macintosh at the time that with the addition of the Spectre GCR the ST was able to run Macintosh software faster than an actual Mac Plus at the time (since the Atari's clock speed was higher) and with a larger and higher resolution display. which refers to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals. The initial ST model, the 520ST, saw limited release in AprilвЂ“June 1985 and was widely available in July. The Atari ST is a line of home computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the Atari 8-bit family.