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m5ness

mness was made obsolete by the integration of a C-NASIC parser into IDENT.

Last Version : 1.5.4

m5ness fufilled the post-m1 prophecy, that rendering would become much faster, and the kode was also much more modular than the monolithic m1, which allowed experimentation with such things as mism, and, later on, IDENT and IDE NT...

m5ness is Yet Another Derivative Of M5, and is available

• in source form (for koders)
and

• in binary (for curious ppl with no kodability) form.

m5ness has the ability to parse m1's TESTIN.TXT files, and renders at insanely fast speeds!

Note that m5ness also needs a C64 Character ROM image, or file of similar format.

tide

An old, discontinued, useless thingy, tide.exe and the main source file; idetest.c. Unsupported and useless. It was fun (to kdoe) but expendable, and now expent.

Command Line Options:

• f = fast redraw (dirty rectangles, not fully implemented, speed diference inpercievable in this thingy);
• s = slow redraw (default, previous method),
• p = enables cursor.

Note that version of renlib with which this was compiled waits for vsyncs in the rendRedraw() function (i.e. fast rendering). This makes the cursor in tide not flicker but slows down rendRedraw().

The last m1

m1 was last updated on February 9, 1999. This final release was frozen and largely forgotten as I ventured to recode m form scratch, largely suceeding with mness.

This last released iteration is called m1r8 officially, and is broken into 3 parts

• For the impatient, the binary, including the necessary input files (CHAR.ROM and TESTIN.TXT), for your convience.
• For those who want the source (which uses C++ comments even though it's C. Muhahahaha! ), go and get it um... here, m1s.zip .
• The source excludes the CHAR.ROM, if you have a file which is an image of the C64's CHARacter ROM, then u don't need it. If u own a C64, u are legally entitled to this file. Or so I'm told. It doesn't matter, anyways, Commodore is bankrupt x2... has been for several years.

If you wish, you can also get m1r6, in binary or source form. There should be no reason why u'd want to, though.

You can still get m1r5, "m1.zip" , but don't. Releases before 6 are known to randomly SIGSERV (i.e. crash). It's only hear for comparision.

m1, with all its design flaws, was at least 3 orders of magnitude slower than it need be. m5 was better designed, and, with the release of m5ness r5, surpassed the feature set of m1's engine, although it lacked the abundance of command line options and debugging modes which m1 was infamous for.

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