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

[Fedor Steeman]

Sounds great! Keep up the good work...

Though I must admit, I bought Portal-9 a year or two ago, but never
got around to work with it, because it keeps on skipping my source
files whenever I wanted to compile. I never managed to solve this, and
then I got absorbed into other activities so I forgot about it...

However, whenever I have the time, I will try to get to work again,
because it is so much easier to write assembly in a windows
environment...

Cheers,

Fedor

On 31/12/06, Roger Taylor <webmaster at coco3.com> wrote:

> At 02:29 PM 12/30/2006, you wrote:

> >Cool! How about a disassembler of the same class as "The Source III"

> >for the CoCo?

> >

> >Cheers,

> >Fedor

>

>

> A partial and incomplete interactive disassembler exists in the

> current Rainbow IDE versions, but no documentation or support is

> provided because it's totally useless at this point.  It's easier for

> me to just hide those features for now while I keep working on it.

>

> The idea is to let the IDE import a binary such as a CoCo game, which

> produces a .dsm file containing intermediate code (not .asm source at

> this point) that the IDE can understand and display in an

> editor.  The dsm editor will let the programmer set label points and

> names, mark data sections, etc. then the disassembler can be called

> again and again on this intermediate file to produce more correct dsm

> files.  The dsm files will be turned into asm files in the end, and

> if they can be reassembled with CCASM and run then the disassembly

> process was successful.  I want to make the whole process seamless...

> binary to dsm, dsm to asm, asm to bin, in one click of the Disassemble button.

>

> While the intermediate code editor is up you can make on-the-fly

> changes and then try to rebuild each time until you see the game or

> program running in the emulator.  Keep in mind that the game or

> program that you see running is not the original binary, but the

> disassembled and reassembled binary.  Wow.  If it crashes then

> something is wrong in the intermediate code.

>

> Ofcourse, I'm talking in the future tense on some of these ideas

> because that is what my goal is and where it's heading now.  I'll try

> to put as many automatic features in the intermediate code generator

> as possible, but anybody who's tried to disassemble code before knows

> that it's 50% elbow grease no matter how ya cut it.  :)

>

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