[INC] Metrowerks CodeWarrior for PlayStation R5 - FCN - 1999/10/22

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TL;DR?
Scroll to the bottom for the download links; though you'll be missing the interesting part...


So, after some research and requesting in this same forum, a good friend shared the FCN release of Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Playstation R5.
This is the latest version of Metrowerks CodeWarrior for PlayStation that was released back in the day (1999)

The good news:
It seems to be a functional release. I haven't had time to test everything, but the IDE starts up, as well as the PSComUtil.

The bad news:
The release is not an ISO nor the Setup, but rather an installed copy of the application (ie. they copied an existing installation).
This also means you have to manually create some registry keys.
Additionally, it is incomplete, missing at least the following:
-Documentation
-Examples
-Shortcuts
-Debugger?
-Other stuff?


Additional information:
Based on the installation log, it seems this was originally installed to the default location in a D drive (D:\Program Files\Metrowerks\Codewarrior).
The directory /CW Release Notes/CodeWarrior Tools/Install Notes/ contains the install_log.txt I mentioned, as well as information on File Association and Registry entries; however these have to be manually created.
I tested this in a Windows 7 32-bits VM. The latest patch (5.2) seemed to install ok (ie. no errors); however it left me with no IDE.exe, so either the patch does not really work correctly in Windows 7 (I'll see if I can test later on with older OS), or it kind of fails due to the application not having been installed using the original setup.
In any case, I was able to extract the 5.2 patch and it can be manually "applied".
REQUIRES the official Sony Programmer Tools Runtime Library (a.k.a. PS SDK)!!!

So, below you'll find the following:
-Original release by FCN
-Original 5.2 update patch
-FCN release Patched by me, including documentation I found from other CW release (Targeting Playstation OS from R4 update patch, and generic docs from MW CW Pro R3, which should match the IDE version of this release).


Original release by FCN - compressed in one file:
PS1MWCWPSR5_FCN.7z
8.4 MB (8804294 bytes)
MD5: 37e76cf1ce5df70a102164e3066b0f4a
SHA1: 1f0be38dc4b44bdb6007404d230266db071d2fa1
https://mega.co.nz/#!eAFXURiY!eXwMFZH7uWRmf4OSqNseOhuj5EZS456EAtdlmvRVzks
http://www.adrive.com/public/vHCNZh/PS1MWCWPSR5_FCN.7z

Original 5.2 update patch:
CWPS_5.2.exe
7.4 MB (7716885 bytes)
MD5: 8f7955ac024f9e238ff2984a723e38fe
SHA1: 055263c637a7cbd123c23231c39f53bc3e14f097
https://mega.co.nz/#!uBMznBwZ!dLTmDpid5SD45xAXnzCJXQ9TdgGXR3GUVoezpRZ7jgw
http://www.adrive.com/public/AGFJ6c/CWPS_5.2.exe

FCN release manually patched/"completed":

<links coming later today>

 

You're great as always, pool. Thanks.

 

You're more than welcome, though thanks should go to FCN for releasing this back in the day, as well as the kind soul that shared it with me.

I wish we had an image of the disc (ISO, BIN/CUE, CCD, etc) or at least the contents of the disc unaltered (ie. in a compressed file). Hopefully someday
In the meantime, I'm having a hard time getting some of the generic docs (the ones included with all Codewarrior "editions") from around the date of release of this version; these are not critical, but I wanted to include them. I'll keep looking for them a little longer, and then whether I find these or not, I'll share the manually patched/"completed" version I put together.

 

Thanks for sharing pool7 and FCN.

 

'MSL C REFERENCE.HLP' is corrupted. I doubt you can repair it since it was ripped by 'TEAM FCN' back in 1999, but like you said, a 1:1 copy of the original would be nice