[Coco] The early days of Hacking and Coding a CoCo Was: Here's a CoCo 1 ...

[Steve]

On 1/18/2014 8:53 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> Le 2014-01-18 à 22:16:00, Allen Huffman a écrit :
>
>> That must have been much nicer to code with. I know many of us would 
>> discuss what the professionals were using to write CoCo programs. I 
>> guess the CoCo was self-hosted, though other systems (even in the 
>> 90s, like Palm Pilots and such) seem to always have been cross compiled.
>
> Almost every iPhone development and Android development is done by 
> cross-compiling, still now.
>
I could never see write code on an iPhone.  The screen is just too small.

Besides, these small device just don't have the power of a Desktop 
computer with 16 GB of ram, eight cores at 4 GHz each and three 
monitors.  Besides, it more about what you want to write code than 
trying to use the target device for everything.

As for using a CoCo to develop on, back in the day there was every 
little that was better to code on.  Sure, I could of used a mainframe 
computer like Microsoft.  But Datasoft did not have the big $$$ for that 
type of stuff.  Besides, sending the output of the assembled program out 
the cassette port to another CoCo with the cloadm command running worked 
well for those small 2K and 4K programs.  Zaxxon was the first game out 
of DataSoft's CoCo division to use Floppies as part of the development 
cycle.

Steve