On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:20, Andrew Davie wrote:
> It's just silly having to recompute the MD5 every time for development.
> THe first example should be sufficient!
> [snip]
> I'm writing to see how others have their emulator hooked into their
> development environment?
> [snip again]
> What are you other developers doing?
I agree that having to regenerate MD5 information - or anything needed for
Stella when your game is a little exotic - is annoying. It's one of the
reasons I abandoned paddles when developing Euchre. Stella for Windows (this
was pre-Cyberstella) wouldn't read the paddles unless I modified the .PRO
file. Granted, I had much better reasons to not use paddles than this, but
it was an annoyance.
When I started work on Euchre, I used Windows 98 SE, EditPlus for editing (a
fantastic, inexpensive editor - I highly recommend it), and primarily Z26 for
emulation. The latter was nice for the ability to give command line switches
and for the all-important scan line counts.
I later switched to SuSE Linux. I used Stella for emulation, since that was
the only option available to me, and used NEdit as my editor. (I have worked
with vi a little, but I didn't want to spend the time learning vi when I had
more to do on Euchre! :) ) The downside was when I started work on the PAL
version of Euchre, I had to regenerate the MD5 and edit the profile entry
each time. However, I didn't have to change .stella.pro itself; I could use
a separate profile file.
I'd really like to see Stella get a scan line count. That is an incredibly
nice feature of Z26 that is so vital to getting the display stable.
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