Jet Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 .. or do you just all hard code with C or C++ ? I love to make games, and would like to pick your brains a little if you don't mind~ any info would be great! always, Jet~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap5750 Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 I use a program called MS-DOS Edit for quite a bit of my coding (not exactly game programing or anything but my normal work job). If I need to do some repetative stuff (thus making a macro usefull), I'll use PFE. Cap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 Any text editor works -- I've used Notepad (not good idea, it has filesize restrictions I found) and now WordPad which works fine for me. Others have recommend more robust editors. And its all 6502 Assembly language, not C. You must use an assembler such as DASM (run it under a DOS window) to assemble your text file that was made in WordPad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calamari Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 I also use MS-DOS Edit. I quicky become frustrated with Windows editors because I don't have the same freedom of movement as I've come to expect with MS-DOS Edit. I don't want it to second guess me. For example, if I push the up arrow, it will go up to the same column even if the last character on the line was way to the left. If I wanted the last word I'd push Ctrl-Left after pushing up Other things I like about it: has handy ways to insert control characters (when needed), doesn't use tabs (makes them spaces instead), file size isn't a problem, doesn't change my file extensions, lets me choose what colors I want for the editing window, and of course uses a fixed width font automatically. You can also have multiple files and split the view, but this could use improvement. Maybe someone should write a Windows editor.. make the editing interface just like MS-DOS Edit (all the keys, etc), but improve the multiple file ability by having tabs at the bottom for the different files that are open). Having it inside Windows would also make it better at copy/paste from other apps. It would also be cool to have color profiles where keywords / chars / elements would turn certain colors (the mode would be activated by keypress, NOT by file extension). This would be my dream Windows editor. calamari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Cowgill Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 I use VisualSlickEdit and ATASM 1.02 on an XP box. Envision is nice for Atari character set editing. I use Atari800win and VSS for test/debug on the PC... And yes, it's generally all assembly language for games. -Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Posted September 6, 2002 Author Share Posted September 6, 2002 I use VisualSlickEdit and ATASM 1.02 on an XP box. Envision is nice for Atari character set editing. I use Atari800win and VSS for test/debug on the PC... And yes, it's generally all assembly language for games. -Clay Thanks Clay! This is perfect! Thanks to everyone for your input! This is great stuff! Its great to be around fellow game designers! If you want to see some of the stuff I made you can get it off my site on the games page. Do you guys have any samples I can see? always, Jet~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 This would be my dream Windows editor. Have you tried Textpad? It offers most (if not all) your wanted features and is very customizable.[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 I'd second Textpad, well worth the registration fee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calamari Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 Textpad is great! Got my colors set up, tab puts in spaces, I can arrow all over the place, and down at the bottom are the cool file tabs. Thanks for mentioning it! calamari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Posted September 6, 2002 Author Share Posted September 6, 2002 Thanks for the link Thomas Jentzsch, Im checking it out also~ always, Jet~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_ruck Posted September 6, 2002 Share Posted September 6, 2002 I've been trying some different editors because I really hate Visual Studio .NET and I'm not doing as much M$ programming as I used to. There are a couple free ones that aren't bad so far. Try out Jext. It's written in Java so it will run on anything, but you probably won't want to use it on an older machine. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Posted September 6, 2002 Author Share Posted September 6, 2002 thanks Eric_ruck, Im getting it now. This should work on my system! ..I love to make games.. always, Jet~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupcakus Posted September 24, 2002 Share Posted September 24, 2002 I use EditPlus2, it lets you create an Atari ASM template, so when you start a new project all the crap that you need everytime you start a new game will be there allready. It's not the best but it works well enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_ruck Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 Actually I just tried out Textpad and it's pretty good but there's one glitch that's driving me nuts, that I think is a bug. When you use the page up/down buttons to scroll the cursor doesn't move. Supposedly this is correct behavior with "Scroll Lock" on, but on my machine it's off (and I tried it both ways, the app always behaves this way). I'm using Texpad 4.5 on XP Professional. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 I'm using Texpad 4.5 on XP Professional. I'm using the same version on Win95a and it works like it should. Might be a problem with XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelen Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 I'm also using textpad and it works great, but it's the evalution version. I was working with notetpad but my file was getting to big for it.. Thelen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 I was working with textpad but my file was getting to big for it.. You meant Notepad, don't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_ruck Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 I'm using Texpad 4.5 on XP Professional. I'm using the same version on Win95a and it works like it should. Might be a problem with XP. Hmm, might be XP or laptop keyboard wierdness. It occurs to me that I don't actually have a scroll lock light anywhere so it's hard to tell the state. Apparently when I hit Alt-Scroll that seems to do the trick. I wonder if there is a BIOS setting or something to turn scroll lock off by default...otherwise I may have to write a program to autorun. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 Edlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 I use Codewright whenever possible, but its an expensive product so for home projects I've started to use Code Genie - a truly awesome editor for any file type: http://www.code-genie.com/ I use it with XASM for 8bit/5200 work: http://atariarea.nostalgia.pl/x-asm/ Where it creates a great intregrated tool with XASM! sTeVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 Steve, so am i... i use code genie + XASM... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 Code Genie looks promising on the web. Unfortunately it doesn't work on Win95a. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted September 27, 2002 Share Posted September 27, 2002 Thomas, W95???? come on.... hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 27, 2002 Share Posted September 27, 2002 Thomas, W95???? come on.... Never change a runing system! Why should I change? My old computer (Pentium I) won't get faster when updating, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted September 27, 2002 Share Posted September 27, 2002 NOOO, it will get slower - don't do it ! Please don't tell me that computer is online though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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