FAQ

SEGA SATURN FAQ

Development environment



▲ UNIX environment

Q ) What about data compression on UNIX?

▲ Programming BOX related

Q ) The power memory is not recognized in the Programming BOX.
Q ) I want to put the power memory in the uninitialized state.
Q ) About memory mapping when SIMM CART of Programming Box is turned on
Q ) About communication between Programming Box and SCSI.
Q ) About programming box and PC setting.
Q ) The image output of Programming Box may be monochrome.

▲ ICE / EVA board related

Q ) When I start IPI.EXE, "NO INTERFACE BOARD" is displayed and I cannot use it at all.

▲ Hitachi Compiler / Debugger related

Q ) Which of SHCLIB.LIB, SHCPIC.LIB and SHCNPIC.LIB should be linked?
Q ) Are there any points to note regarding the SH C compiler options during Sega Saturn development?
Q ) The source file does not appear in the file list with GUISH.
Q ) I want to display 2-byte code characters such as Kanji in the source code with GUISH.
Q ) When I start GUISH, the message "NO INTERFACE BOARD" is displayed.
Q ) I want to use GUISH for debugging both master and slave.

▲ Cartdev + Dev SATURN environment

Q ) What is CartDev?
Q ) How to run a program to access write-once CDs in the CartDev environment?
Q ) CartDev + DevSaturn does not recognize PowerMemory from the debugger.
Q ) I can't access directly DOS or read from a disk image with VCD.
Q ) How to execute the sample that self-boots from the virtual CD with CartDev + DevSaturn?
Q ) Where does the tail protruding from the back of DevSaturn connect?

▲ GNU development environment

Q ) I want to use Chinese characters with gcc.
Q ) About the development environment for assembly with GNU.
Q ) When I compile with gcc, I get an error with go32.
Q ) I can't compile SBL with gcc 3/28 version.
Q ) Even if I increase the optimization of gcc, the speed does not increase.
Q ) Is there any good way to put the error list that gcc spits out into a file?
Q ) I want to set a section for a variable or function.
Q ) I want to enter a long command from the command line.
Q ) I want to use an inline assembler in a C function.
Q ) GCC returns the message "garbage at end of number".
Q ) I want to use a divider using gcc.
Q ) I want to write code in C ++.
Q ) What is an efficient coding technique?
Q ) I would like to publish a correspondence table between sources and assemblies.
Q ) Which make should I use?
Q ) I want to make an original library.
Q ) What is gasm?
Q ) I get the error message "can't open blah: interrupted system call".
Q ) When I try to run LD on my PC, I get an error message saying "Not enough memory".
Q ) The linker is slow.
Q ) I want to disassemble object files and COFF files.
Q ) I want to see the symbol information of the library file and COFF file.

▲ SNASM related

Q ) I want to restart snbugsat with the contents of memory left after it hangs up.
Q ) I want to use the READ / WRITE cycle condition setting and history function in SNASM.
Q ) Does SNASM have a function to drop the contents of RAM into a coff file, etc.?
Q ) Please tell me how to read the SIMM address in the SNASM environment.
Q ) How to debug with SNASM?
Q ) I can't see the inside of the structure with SNASM.

▲ VCD / simple CD simulator related

Q ) Please tell me a little more about the operating models of VCD.
Q ) Please tell me the operation procedure of VCD in the CartDev + DevSaturn environment.
Q ) I get an error when I run VCDBULID.
Q ) About the operating environment of the simple emulator.
Q ) Is it possible to play Cinapak or CD-DA with a simple CD simulator?
Q ) How to use the simple CD simulator?
Q ) I want to use a simple SCSI system with SGL.
Q ) What are the conditions for using a simple SCSI system?
Q ) About the operation of the virtual CD (what I want you to check)
Q ) I installed the virtual CD on my PC and started VCDEMU.EXE, but it does not start properly.

▲ X BAND

Q ) Only local mode is started.
Q ) I'm developing with CartDev + DevSaturn, but it doesn't seem to recognize the modem.
Q ) I am doing a server test with CartDev + DevSaturn, but it does not work properly.

▲ Other

Q ) What are SBL and SGL?
Q ) About the converter of bin ← → S28.
Q ) What are the specifications of the S format?
Q ) Which PC is recommended for development equipment?
Q ) addcdw does not work.
Q ) I want to make a copy of a write-once CD.
Q ) What are the precautions when porting from NTSC to PAL?
Q ) When I make a CD with a Yamaha writer, noise is mixed in between the tracks of the CDDA.

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