On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:27 AM Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 9:08 AM Phil Pemberton via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I'm (still) trying to reverse-engineer a ton of M68K ROM code which was > > apparently compiled with a circa-1990 C compiler. > > > Does anyone have copies of any of the following -- or any other C > > compilers for the 68K which were around at that time? > > * Anything not on this list ;) > > We rolled our own m68k cross assembler...
I'm also remembering that the cost of a C compiler that ran on VMS but emitted m68k code was insanely expensive in the late 1980s (many thousands of dollars) so for one project, we purchased a Perkin Elmer 7350 workstation and it was both the software development environment for the team _and_ we used its C compiler to generate m68k assembler, which we then fed to our home-grown cross-assembler because we needed our binary format, not a.out. It really was the cheapest way to do that 30 years ago. OTOH, at home, I'd had an Amiga since 1986 and used a variety of native tools (Lattice C later SAS/C, and various assemblers either commercial or from a Fish Disk). -ethan
