[MiNT] Re: MiNTOS Versions

[Oddie Jonathan <oddie@bvsd.k12.co.us>]

>
>> The really nice thing about it is that nearly everything that runs on MiNT
>> will run on MacMiNT with very few changes. The exceptions are of course things
>> like AES (not that I really know what this is...:) that access hardware
>> directly. At the moment I'm trying to port w1r3 and it doesn't look too hard...
>
>AES (Application Environment Services) is that part that manages windows
>and applications in GEM. It is not suppsed tobe hardware dependent, but
>well,... I do not know AES internals enough to make a point. It certainly
>needs a running VDI.
>

And VDI, from what I see in vdibind.h, provides functions to do simple
drawing, access mouse and other stuff... right?
Is there a free version (with source) of it that I could look at?

Sorry to bother you with these questions, I'm just a bit ignorant about atari
world (and curious ...)

BTW: does anyone know if it is possible to declare an inline function in gcc?
e.g. some compilers allow this:
	void dummyfunc(void) = 0xA913;
which makes a function that calls an a-trap, but my gcc (2.5.8) whines at this,
saying something like "function initialized like a variable."
It would be nice if someone knows how to do this, because this is what I need
to be able to call Mac functions from inside MacMiNT, which is necessary for
a few things...

Thanks


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Jonathan