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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3248.0. "What is SEKA???" by CGOFS::OAKLEY (BCNU2) Thu Dec 21 1989 21:12

    
    At a demo given at our club meeting a game developer was using a
    program called SEKA which appeared to be some form of symbolic debugger
    for assembler with a lot of abilities, such as saving memory to a file. 
    Unfortunately he was using it at high velocity and did not say much
    about SEKA, although in his game VORTEX (now on shelves) he does
    indicate that the game was written in SEKA.  At one point he did
    mention that SEKA came from Germany.
    
    Does anybody out there happen to know anything about this program?
    
    wayne
    
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3248.1Shades of the past...FROCKY::BALZERChristian Balzer DTN:785-1029Fri Dec 22 1989 07:1319
    
    SEKA is a hackers tool. Period.
    It's great for writing unstructured programs and poking into absolute
    addresses. If this game was written using SEKA, I bet all my earthly
    belongings that it will not work properly on certain OS versions/memory
    configurations or processors.
    The reason that SEKA is so popular over here is due to the fact
    that this is ALLINONE (not to confuse with ALL-IS-LOST by DEC ;-)
    type program, that has the assembler and a monitor in one executable
    and thus appeals to former C=64 hackers/programmers.
    
    If you're looking for a decent a speedy assembler check out the
    topics in this conference that discuss them.
    C.A.P.E. is nice and there are two new ones announced, which are
    supposed to be extremly fast.
    
    Regards,
    
    <CB> 
3248.2If it's a hacker's tool; where does a hacker get it?WILARD::BARRETTWait'll they get a load of meFri Dec 29 1989 16:221