[Coco] Latest Release of the VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator

[Salvador Garcia]

I totally understand what you are saying. I too see the opportunity to enhance VCC in such a way that t becomes so much more than just a CoCo 3 emulator. The functionality that you are describing is reminiscent of an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), such as Eclipse, Visual Studio or even Arduino. Taking Arduino as an example, you have hardware that runs on the ATMEL microcontroller. The hardware is connected to the PC via the USB port. The IDE allows you to use a modern editor where you enter the C code. There you can verify that the code is valid, copy and paste code or open from a text file. When the code is valid you transfer it to the Arduino hardware and run it.
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Now imagine having such an environment with VCC at its core. The environment would allow editing using modern day tools, import and export of code, debugging and final code generation. From reading this list for over a year I can see that all of these tools are available. It is just a matter of collaboration and hard work to get them integrated in an environment such as the one that you describe.

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This is no trivial task. 

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Regards, Salvador

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: Steve Batson <steve_batson at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sat, Jan 9, 2016 9:44 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Latest Release of the VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator

I'm so spoiled by the features of modern Computers and Operating Systems It's very difficult for me to stay motivated to program the CoCo if I have to resort to archaic editors and jump through the hoops one must often do to move from the PC to the CoCo and back. I think with VCC, we have the opportunity to do much of the work on a modern system and then move to the CoCo for final testing.What I'd really love to see in VCC is ability to cut and paste and/or more easily move data back and forth between the Virtual Disk Files and Windows and any other features that would streamline programing on the PC and transferring between CoCo and PC. Let's face it, doing things like using the Edit features in BASIC is cumbersome and slow no matter how well you have the control keys memorized and how fast you can type. I'm sure the same is true with other languages on the Coco.Being able to sit at my primary computer where I have the most comfortable setup and everything I need a few mouse clicks away would greatly enhance comfort, productivity, etc. :)On Jan 8, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:> Oh I can definitely see the use in software development.  :)> > Eventually I’m going get around to setting up a dev environment and do some programming,> and I’ll want it for testing things.  So far everything I’ve been doing on the CoCo is hardware.> > It looks great.> > - Ed> -- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco