[Coco] Creating and loading big machine code files into RSDOS

[Mark McDougall]

On 15/02/2017 12:37 PM, Glen Hewlett wrote:

> Wow that’s some setup you have Mark

I think my verbosity makes it sound more impressive than it really is...

> My job has nothing to do
> with coding.  I only code for fun.

Although my job involves coding, for the most part it has nothing to do 
with 8- or 16-bit CPUs - that's purely for fun! I am fortunate in that 
my work affords me access to IDAPro disassembler, something I would 
definitely not want to do without! :O

Over the years I've worked with dozens of software development 
environments for dozens of platforms, from Windows & Linux GUIs through 
to PIC & 8051 micro-controllers.

Fully integrated coding/debugging suites are nice for sure, but you tend 
to get locked into a specific environment and at times, if it's 
something you only touch for maintenance every 6 months or so, there's 
often a ramp-up time getting familiar with it all again. And as you 
accumulate different projects, and their associated development 
environments over time, it becomes a bit of a mess and good luck when 
your machine dies and you have to reinstall it all again!

So for my own retro stuff, I like to keep it simple. One suite of 
assemblers, the same command-line environment, and MAME/MESS for 
debugging. I can even store the entire build toochain under version 
control (SVN) with each project if I wish, because they're tiny by 
today's standards. As a result, at any time I can pick up and work on my 
Coco projects on either my work PC, home PC, or laptop, by simply 
checking out the latest version from SVN.

And with my SVN repository hosted off-site, it's very unlikely I'll ever 
lose my source code! ;)

Regards,

-- 
Mark McDougall
<http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>