I like what you are doing with the IDE. What I'd like to see the most in
an editor, though, is color coding ala TextPad. I don't use any extra
special functions in TextPad other than the color coding and the
programmable command line macros (to hook it up to DASM/MAKEWAV).
So if you had a configurable color coding scheme it would probably be all I
would need if I were to use this tool.
Looking forward to the next generation graphical conversion/edit tools for
playfield and sprites too.
What also might be a good idea is to have an integrated 6502 emulator
hooked up in such a way that you could single-step through a DASM
sourcecode listing. Even if it weren't visual it would be really useful to
debug game logic outside the kernel. The single-stepping in PCAtari is
pretty clumsy to use for me right now because you can't back-reference
easily to a commented source listing.
I'm sure there must already be a free 6502 emulator core for Java floating
around.
At 12:30 AM 6/20/2003, you wrote:
I know nobody is holding their breath for this, but I just thought I'd
send out an update. As some of you may remember, I've been working on a
Java-based editing environment. I'm hoping to have a fully functioning
version of it sometime before August. It was called Classic Atari Gamer...
but I changed the name to Classic Gamer Development Kit. It currently
includes a text editor - feautres: cut/copy/paste, line count, print with
line count, undo/redo, open/save - txt/asm files, user-defined undo/redo
limit; Playfield editor; Color chooser; Command/Dos window for running
command-line emulators and DASM; the beginnings of a GIF/JPEG/PNG file
converter - which will eventually turn into a new playfield and sprite
editor; and lastly a lite web-browser for looking at CGDK tutorials - and
since it's there anyway - browsing the web.
To see a current screenshot of it and read more about it, visit the
following URL:
http://myweb.cableone.net/bergstrom/cag/
Thanks,
Aaron
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