14 Apr
2007
14 Apr
'07
11:34 a.m.
Rumor has it that Ensor may have mentioned these words:
LOL, the 6809 assembler I'm using at the moment is
run from the command
line (though I'm firing it up through a batch file and editing the source
with "notepad" - who needs an IDE?).
Needs? Well... dunno about "needs" but Roger Taylor over at www.coco3.com
has written a beautimus IDE called "Rainbow" that you can interface your
favorite assembler into (It comes with CCASM, a very nice 6809 assembler)
and is interfaced right with M.E.S.S. so with several classic machine
emulations, click a button, all the assembling is done, if there's no
errors, it automagically creates/formats/writes the .dsk files & starts
M.E.S.S. with the disk already mounted & ready to go.
It makes writing & debugging code for the CoCo a dream, and he's expanding
it to include other machines & assemblers so you can write code for the
Commodore 64, Atari 800, etc. type machines.
The software is new, and technically you could use it to write code for an
offtopic machine, but it really is aimed at the ol' 8-bitters, so hopefully
this isn't too offtopic. IMHO, it's a lot closer than where the whole Linux
thread...[1]
I'm not affiliated with him other than being a very satisfied customer.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/). Whole distro's 50
Meg, boots from CD/USB/HD, runs in RAM, with X. Pretty slick. ;-)
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