Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hugh Hood Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Subject: Re: Integrated development on emulators: The next step Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 10:44:20 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: <10c8l8k$2urq3$1@dont-email.me> References: <0001HW.2E97969502E2F6EC30D87C38F@eu.astraweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f825d427cc280d836579c47e327663bd"; logging-data="3108675"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qpT4SjXbkczAAjPij9E671Nsk+CMcTtc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:CEUSsYUwxMVlPqblbMPXPN4V0q0= In-Reply-To: <0001HW.2E97969502E2F6EC30D87C38F@eu.astraweb.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2.programmer:6335 Ewen, It always brightens my day to read your posts. I trust you are well these days. Thank you for continuing to contribute here. I too write my code in BBEdit on the Mac. Of course, I write in Merlin32 and have a BBEdit language module for it (for coloring and the like), rather than write in ORCA/M as you do. I find BBEdit more than sufficient for my needs, as I've set up a 'droplet' to take the source and produce the binary to transfer to the emulator. I suppose we all have our own procedures. Regards, Hugh Hood On 10/9/25 2:07 AM, Speccie wrote: > >> You've basically described the dream workflow for a lot of retro >> developers. Having the edit-assemble-test loop all happen in one >> environment without swapping files around is a huge time saver. > > I have never found that to be a problem. I write the code files in > BBEdit on the Mac that Sweet16 is running on, then have a Favourite > entry in SAFE2 on the emulated IIgs pointing to tthe folder on the > Mac where the source files are saved. > > It then takes seconds to copy the file or files over, and start the > assembly in ORCA/M. > > I don’t of course need to run BBEdit on the same Mac. As long as > the computer I am writing the source files on can be reached by FTP, > that sequence works just the same... > > Cheers - Speccie >