[Coco] Rainbow IDE in Linux

[Roger Taylor]

Tonight I tested my Portal-9 IDE in Linux (via Wine) and it seems to 
have some pathname problems not related to Linux itself.  Rainbow 
works quite well but I haven't tried to install Win32 MESS via Wine 
to see if it can run that way.  If I can get the Linux version of 
MESS installed I'll do more testing.

Right now I'm impressed with the Wine system.  To my surprise, once 
it is installed you can click on .exe files even from web pages, and 
Linux will automatically run them as if you are in Windows.  I really 
see no reason to port the Rainbow IDE if Linux can already use it 
as-is.  No special emulator window is needed.  It even shows up in 
the Linux apps menu under Wine->Programs->Rainbow IDE just like it 
does in the Windows start menu.

I just loaded the CoCo->Hello World project, clicked Go, and the 
hello.bin file was created by CCASM.  I then loaded the .bin file 
using Rainbow's hex editor, and it appears to be valid.  Again, all 
done as if you are in Windows... no special changes or tweaks are 
needed as far as I can tell.

The path to the .bin is right where I expected it to be put....

/root/wine/drive_c/Program Files/Rainbow IDE/Projects/CoCo/Hello 
World/Files/hello.bin

Ofcourse, the IDE displays the pathname using Windows \ backslashes 
and in the native Windows format:

c:\Program Files\Rainbow IDE\Projects\CoCo\Hello World\Files\hello.bin


-- 
Roger Taylor