[Coco] Re: Portal-9 3.00 (Windows 2000 compatible)

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:40 AM 1/25/2005, you wrote:
>Hello Roger
>
>Thanks, I use a W2K PC and as you already know.. it doesn't work so pretty
>good with MESS or P9. With the effort to retify that, I'm beginning to get
>excited about it again 8-). I still want to get an older PC running with
>Win98SE just so I can do the hardware things necessary to get the most out
>of the emus.

Ah, but Portal-9 works with Windows 2000 now.  I'm not sure about M.E.S.S., 
though.  Maybe somebody could comment on that.

What's recent in Portal-9?

3.01 adds bookmarking and some other features.  Manual bookmarking lets you 
go back to places in your source code by hitting the bookmark up/down 
buttons.  Also, assembly errors are automatically bookmarked and you can 
jump to those lines with two other error-bookmark find buttons.  No more 
scrolling around looking for where the assembly error lines are.  Also 
added are descriptive tooltips that popup when you hover over the panel 
controls, telling exactly what the control is for, or does.

CCASM now optionally outputs Motorola S-record files using S1/S9.  This 
works for multi-origin, single origin, and ROM/raw binaries.
CCASM will also take a binary file as input and output the .asm file!  (a 
work in progress)

example:

1) cm pitfall.bin   (outputs an initial raw file: pitfall.dsm)
2) (now do some editing, auto or manual to the .dsm file...)
3) cm pitfall.dsm   (outputs pitfall.asm, and possibly other support .asm 
files)

The process is to do step 1 once, then repeat steps 2 and 3 until the 
resulting .asm file either LOOKS promising or actually assembles and runs 
using CCASM or CASM.  At this point, the disassembly is done.  Portal-9 
will allow all steps to be done from a grid editor.

The 6809/6309 disassembler is about 50% through but will not reveal itself 
in the IDE until it's completely useable.  It is VERY nice to say the 
least, in the form of a grid.  Most of the work left is in the actual 
disassembly code, which is part of CCASM.


-- 
Roger Taylor