Mountain King Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 With my first game written in Batari basic, I think I want to move on and finally tackle assembly. Any suggestions on the best IDE set up for a first time user and windows 10 user? I hear Crimson Editor is good. Kdevelop. Jedit, vwbasic was suggested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I use jEdit on my Mac, works well. It's written in Java so is cross-platform. I posted about it in the Atari 2600 Programming forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 If you want to give Crimson Editor a try, here is a post for setting it up and testing a file. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 If you want to give Crimson Editor a try, here is a post for setting it up and testing a file. Thank you. I have Crimson editor ready to go. Now time to hit the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 After you learn all about Assembly Language, maybe you can come back to batari Basic and make some kernels, minikernels, modules or enhancements. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 After you learn all about Assembly Language, maybe you can come back to batari Basic and make some kernels, minikernels, modules or enhancements. Boy you have a lot of faith in me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) I tried setting up Jedit with Spiceware's instructions. But when I tried to run the console. I got this error. I'm not sure what I did wrong. Edited January 18, 2016 by Mountain King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I tried setting up Jedit with Spiceware's instructions. But when I tried to run the console. I got this error. I'm not sure what I did wrong. That looks like part of a path using: C:\Program Files\... The space in a file & path will cause problems with command line programs like dasm. Instead of seeing it as a one parameter of C:\Program Files\... it sees it as two parameters of C:\Program and Files\... To fix it you need to use quotes around things that contain spaces. I show that in the blog entry: "c:\Program Files\Dasm\dasm.exe" $n -f3 -v0 -s$c.sym -l$c.lst -o$c.bin If that doesn't help, post your Compile & Run settings: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 I'm not sure if this matters but Atari Assembly does not show up in the drop down under "set compiler/interpreter mode" even after loading an atari asm file. I made sure the assembly-6502.xml was in the modes folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I'm not sure if this matters but Atari Assembly does not show up in the drop down under "set compiler/interpreter mode" even after loading an atari asm file. I made sure the assembly-6502.xml was in the modes folder. You need to add an entry to the catalog file. I'll check specifics tomorrow, my computers powered off and I'm watching the x-files, but you can take a look at this blog entry. Do note I used to set it up as "assembly-6502" before I decided "Atari 2600 assembly" was a better name because the mode file includes 2600 specific syntax highlighting rules. http://atariage.com/forums/blog/148/entry-11369-updated-assembly-6502-and-batari-basic-mode-files/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Thanks, I think I finally got everything working correctly. Sorry I interrupted X-files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackAttack Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 If you haven't already done so, I'd recommend setting up source control too. Having a record of what changed since it last worked can be a real help when things go wrong. Backing up your work online is nice too. If you haven't used source control before I can recommend git. Bitbucket and github both offer free personal accounts I think. If you want a ui in windows, tortisegit is free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Thanks, I think I finally got everything working correctly. Sorry I interrupted X-files. Awesome! No worries - was checking AA during a commercial break. I don't normally watch live TV, but had a feeling the football game would run long and throw off the DVR. It did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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