Rumor has it that Ensor may have mentioned these words: 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. ;-) -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate." SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein zmerch at 30below.com |