SDK Atari Software Development Kit 
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Rated: 90%

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This CD-ROM contains 243MB of programming utilities, compilers, 
tutorials, hypertexts, and source code. Not a full-up CD by any 
means but don't worry, you will not feel short-changed once you've 
explored it!
 Every language commonly or uncommonly found on the Atari 
platform is represented here, and much of the material is bang up 
to date. While there are highly useful assemblers and source code 
convertors (C to DSP) for the Falcon's DSP chip, there are also 
exotica like a cross compiler for the 6502 processor found on old 
Atari 8-bit machines.
 You'll find a raft of popular text editors for trimming all 
that source code, the complete GNU C and, wait for it, the source 
code for real goodies like Bad Mood, the Falcon Doom clone, Claus 
Brod's HD Driver software, and so many other exciting projects  
that frankly I can't write any more, I have to dig out my copy of 
Tempus 2 and get programming!
 Yes, much of the software can be found elsewhere, and some of 
it is old, but there are new tools for under-developed languages, 
like plug-ins to make Modula-2 (an old sparring partner of mine) 
work with new kids like Magic and MagicMac2.  To have brought all 
this together on one CD with all the relevant tools, shells, 
desktops even (The impressive Gemini 2 with its UNIX-style 
command- line window is here) is mighty impressive.
 Much of the software and sources are, predictably, German, but 
English language documentation is included with most of the stuff. 
Half the fun with the CD was in trawling through the forty or so 
folders in a voyage of discovery. Reading the Index file is too 
easy!
 Verdict: Extremely interesting!