Notes for AF CD users
=====================

This directory contains the latest versions of
George Gwilt's PD FPSP (floating point support
package) for all Amigas with FPUs running Qdos.

It also contains useful information for would-
be FPU programmers (on any operating system).

FPSAVE supports 68881, 68882, 68040 and 68060
systems, via the four separate FPSP files. You
only need the FPSP appropriate for your system,
selected and loaded for you by FPSAVE.

After that, all Qdos tasks can work as if they
had their own 'private' FPU. You also need a
recent (32-bit clean) version of Amiga Qdos -
currently version 3.24 though 3.23 should also
be compatible, on most Amiga configurations.

Other utilities in this collection include the
FPU-compatible GWASS assembler, which converts
assembly language source into binary code files,
& GWDISS, a disassembler which does the reverse.

Complete commented source code for all of the
programs (but not the Motorola-supplied FPSPs)
is also included in this collection.

All these utilities have documentation in the
corresponding _TEXT file and update notes in
the eponymous _CHANGES document.

The executable programs (GWASS, GWDISS etc) are
not directly runable from the CD because the CD
mastering process destroys the file 'Comment'
information which specifies the task type and
dataspace. Consequently these programs are also
provided in a separate file (QdosTasks.lha) as
LHA compression preserves the file comments.

You can use GWASS (the freeware Qdos 68008-060
assembler) and the other tasks by formatting a
Qdos floppy and extracting the archive to that
drive.

The QL handler (or XFS) will automatically
convert the file comments into Qdos directory
dataspace and filetype information so you can
run the programs from Qdos in the usual way:

EXEC FLP1_GWASS60_BIN

etc.

Many thanks to George Gwilt for writing all
this useful manterial and making it freely
distributable.


Simon N Goodwin

Amiga Format columnist

April 1998.