Homebrew Development Tools
A little bit of a dry entry today. It's just to discuss my own personal setup for homebrew development.I have a late model P4 and am running Windows 2000. For me this is just so that I can work in a similar environment to what I have to use at work.I recently switched from Codewright to Textpad and I am very happy with the new editor.For 2600 work, I am using DASM, distella, PCX2GRP, Z26 and Stella. I really enjoy using the new debug capabilities in Stella.But what I really want to talk about is that I am also using Perforce for source control. Source control? you might ask, why would one person doing small homebrew projects want to use source control? Isn't that for giant multi-programmer projects that take months or years to complete?I find that source control works quite well for me as a programmer at home working on several homebrew projects at the same time. It also helps maintain a history every change that I made to each source file. Allows me to label releases, and to pick up programming after a long layoff by allowing me to review my most recent progress.Perforce is free for personal use and allows up to two clients. I have even done a little bit of collaborative work by attaching my Perforce server to a dynamic DNS and a friend was able to login and make changes.Another good alternative is Subversion, which brings a lot of the great features of Perforce to the free software world and looks like a great replacement for CVS which seems a little long in tooth these days.If you want to set up and use Perforce, I may be able to help you.
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