
 -*[ MAGIC KIT v2.0 ]*-
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    Hi!

    Many new things await you in this version of Magic Kit:

        - a more powerful assembler, it's now a pleasure to program in asm ;)
        - a few documents and tutorials on the PC-Engine
        - a better assembler documentation
        - some demos with their source code for playing with
        - a support library, with useful subroutines, macros, and defines
        - a startup code ready to include in your program

    To quote only a few of the new features. ;)

    And as a little suprise, there's now also a NES version of the
    assembler. A while ago I discovered a NES development kit written
    by Charles Doty, this kit was based on an earlier version of MagicKit.
    I thought it would be a nice idea to merge the two kits, so that
    they both could benefit from each other changes/features.
    The NES version is still in an early stage though, there are less
    documents and code than for the PC-Engine, and not all the new features
    of the assembler are available in the NES version, but this should grow.

    Well I will let you play now. And don't forget to read all the
    documents. ;)

    Have fun!
    David


    Thanks to
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        - David Shadoff and Bt Garner for their input (and coding!) for
          improving the assembler, and providing some sample code, and
          helping (a lot!) to write more documentation.

        - Charles Doty for adding NES support to the assembler.

        - Tony Young for letting me distribute his NES 'JUNK' demo with
          MagicKit. Don't forget to ask him if you want to use his demo
          in one of your project or if you want to put it on your web
          page.

        - Jens Ch. Restemeier, Emanuel Schleussinger and Paul Clifford,
          for making those excellent documentations on the PC-Engine
          hardware.

        - Hiroyuki Ito, for Japanese support - coming soon, a Japanese
          website and translated version of the documentation !

        - dil, for his Tetris CG artwork used in the SLIDSHOW demo.

        - J. H. Van Ornum, for his old 6502 assembler (May 11th, 1984).
          I used his sources as a base for the assembler.

        - DJ Delorie, for DJGPP.
          If you search for a fast, good and free C compiler,
          go to : <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp>

        - Charles Sandmann, for CWSDPMI.
          A pretty good DPMI server.
          <ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/csdpmi*.zip>

        - anybody who uses this assembler to write a demo or a game

        (and to you if you like this program!)


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David Michel <dmichel@easynet.fr>

