George Gwilt's Programs

[Derek_Stewart]

A sad lost to the QL community and the world in general.

I met George many times at Quanta Workshops, he bought a Q60 and other hardware items I was trying to sell.

I used all of his software, which was produced in a very easy way for normal users like me to understand.

For example, when everybody was saying the Turbo Compiler can not compile QPTR Superbasic programmes, George produced a way to Turbo compile the QPTR Superbasic examples supplied on the QPTR disc.

[pjw]

To everyone who had the pleasure to know George:

Just came across this obituary on George Gwilt. May he rest in peace.

Thanks for the pointer. Interesting read. (A small part of) his spirit lives on, crystallised in the body of work he leaves behind!

[dilwyn]

Thank you tofro.

[ql_freak]

To everyone who had the pleasure to know George:

Just came across this obituary on George Gwilt. May he rest in peace.

Thank you Tobias for this info.

I'm very sad, have today the first time read the documentation of his macro assembler (gass). It seems to me the first QL assembler which can compete with QMAC (GST) with one GREAT ADVANTAGE: Labels can be up to 32 bytes long :-D

BTW: When reading "changes_doc" from C68, I have found, that it is also delivered with gass, so there may be at least some support for it in C68 (I don't like the syntax and object [output] format of as68). Can C68 output SROFF instead of its normal (none SROFF) object format (which IMHO also is output by as68)?

[tofro]

To everyone who had the pleasure to know George:

Just came across this obituary on George Gwilt. May he rest in peace.

BTW: When reading "changes_doc" from C68, I have found, that it is also delivered with gass, so there may be at least some support for it in C68 (I don't like the syntax and object [output] format of as68).

GWASS is in fact a nearly full replacement for the GST Macro Assembler. There are only some very minor shortcomings in comparison with GST that you will probably never miss.

Can C68 output SROFF instead of its normal (none SROFF) object format (which IMHO also is output by as68)?

That is not needed: GWASS can produce _o files that can be directly linked with the C68 linker. (It's a config option in GWAss). The format of the _o files is Sinclair SROFF, just like what C68 in fact produces, only the filename extension is different (_o instead of _rel). Indeed, you can even use C68 ld as a replacement for the GST linker if you like.