[Coco] Rainbow IDE 2.0 Basic and Gold in the works

[Fedor Steeman]

Cool! How about a disassembler of the same class as "The Source III"
for the CoCo?

Cheers,
Fedor

On 30/12/06, Roger Taylor <webmaster at coco3.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow programmers,
>
> I've started work on Rainbow IDE 2.0 after months of idleness and
> feedback gathering.  An advanced version for the more hardcore
> programmers will also be created called Rainbow Gold.  The versioning
> scheme will be Rainbow 2.0 Basic and Rainbow 2.0 Gold.  Easy enough,
> and upgrading will be easy.
>
> Lots of work in the M.E.S.S. emulator department will be done to help
> combat a serious problem I've had to deal with for years.  For some
> reason, the M.E.S.S. binaries and support tools such as imgtool and
> wimgtool keep CHANGING in ways that cripple my IDEs.  Usually, these
> changes are small and probably unnecessary, but for whatever reason
> the -options and -flags keep changing in imgtool.exe, I'm sure the
> author(s) have a good reason.
>
> SO... what I'm doing is creating a smart system that should defeat
> the problem that the M.E.S.S. system keeps introducing.  In order for
> Rainbow to work seamlessly with the M.E.S.S. system on each release,
> I have to "outsmart" the system in several ways.  My goal is to
> devise a method of tickling the exe files in so many ways that it
> reveals it's new changes that could have otherwise crippled the
> Rainbow IDE from building virtual floppy disks or launching the
> emulator.  On top of that, a manual override will be provided so the
> programmer can set the IDE to use ANY version of mess.exe and
> imgtool.exe no matter what the authors did to break compatibility
> (not on purpose, ofcourse).  Nathan, are you reading this?  :)
>
> A CoCo BASIC compiler is planned to be added as well, which should
> let BASIC programmers create super-fast binary games and programs
> using much simpler BASIC statements!
>
> Please give me your feedback and ideas for the Rainbow IDE!
>
> www.rainbowide.com
>
> Thanks,
> Roger Taylor
>
>
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