[Coco] PopStar Pilot - Another chapter added

[Mark McDougall]

I would agree that anything that speeds the development process should be welcomed - why put yourself through all that pain just for nostalgic reasons? Not to mention the fact that you're more likely to actually finish a project if you're not bogged down using cumbersome tools.

It was quite common back in the day that commercial game developers used systems other than the target machine to develop the 8-bit games. For example, cross assemblers were quite common, especially when disk storage on the target was the exception rather than the norm. So I'd argue that using an Amiga to develop coco games is still in the spirit of early development.



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Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>I was using an Amiga even back in the late 80's to create the graphics 
>for my CoCo3 games.
>
>I still have an Amiga setup and so I wanted to recreate the programming 
>environment I had then.
>
>My CoCo back then had flopppies whereas the Amiga had a hardrive and was 
>faster.
>
>Nowadays, with DriveWire, I could use a CoCo using CoCoMax and ColorMax 
>(as long as these supported DriveWire). Both of these are perfectly 
>capable graphs editors. (Not to mention the OS-9 equivalents).
>
>Steve is right though, you tend to use the tools that will provide the 
>best capabilities that can speed up your work. Often I will write the 
>tools I need in Basic on the CoCo such as a Level Editor (coming soon) 
>because this can be very specific to what you are creating.
>
>So, yes, I could use the CoCo but I am simply recreating my old 
>development environment as a feeling of nostagia.   :)
>
>Nick
>
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