Subject: Re: [stella] Stella 2.0 alpha 1 available From: Adam Thornton <adam@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:20:13 -0400 |
On Jun 25, 2005, at 7:35 PM, Glenn Saunders wrote: > Andrew, your suggestions are so fantastic. You took > the words right out of my mouth. It's exactly the > kind of stuff I want. > > I really like the idea of marking up the sourcecode to > configure the debugger. If you do hotkey > compile-and-loads into Stella from TextPad or some > other editor that has command-line utilities like > that, then DASM basically becomes an extension to the > debugger, and it helps minimize the requirements of > the debugger user-interface. Stella would not have to > disassemble at all because it has the original > sourcecode it can cross-reference. > > If Stella displays a copy of the commented sourcecode > in its window, then it would only need to also put the > line number on the margin and if you wanted to make an > edit you could flip back to our text editor and go to > that line number. > > Of course, at that point, it's a small leap to just > give Stella an integreated (color coded) text editor. > DASM itself can still be an external program. > > I can say for myself I never use anything more than > the basic cut/copy/past/search/replace stuff in > TextPad. Are there any plans at all to make this cross-platform? I ask, because I now use Mac OS X as my desktop box; before that, I used a Linux box. So portable solutions are fairly important to me. Although in the grand scheme of things I think I'm unlikely to actually finish another 2600 game, so... Adam Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://stella.biglist.com
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