From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: Porting c/c++ to gaming consoles...
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:23:18 -0700 (PDT), Chris Amos
<homie_dont_play_dat AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

>Is c/c++ portable to game consoles? If it is so "portable", is it
>portable to PSX, SNES, NES, N64, DREAMCAST? Any gaming consoles?

C is portable to PlayStation and more powerful consoles (it really
needs multiply instruction and quite a bit of RAM), provided you have:
 o a C compiler for each of the system's CPUs
 o a kernel and graphics library written for that system (NetBSD is
   being ported to Dreamcast)
 o a license from the console manufacturer to develop on the consoles
   (in the United States, defeating the consoles' anti-unlicensed-
   software mechanisms is a violation of copyright law)

C would never work on NES, which only has 2 KB of RAM and an 8-bit
6502 processor.  NES is normally programmed in assembly language:
  http://pineight.8m.com/nes.htm

ObDJGPP:  GCC can generate code for the CPUs.

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