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OffTopic > Why are so many GBA tools Windows specific?

#6454 - crossraleigh - Mon May 26, 2003 9:11 am

Are there that few people working from other OSes?

Why must Catapult and Dragon Basic come with their own IDE, instead of letting me use my own editor? Couldn't the programmers just write the compilers and let me decide the syntax highlighting colors?

I use OS X on my iBook whenever I can. Otherwise, at least for development, I use Linux. If you get something from VC++, great. But to me, nothing is better than Unix and the GNU utils for programming.

I don't wanna sound too harsh, but this does make me pretty mad.

#6490 - peebrain - Tue May 27, 2003 7:19 pm

Maybe they run under the assumption that if you run a different OS than Windows, you're smart enough to just use C/C++ for programming. The IDE's tend to be "all-in-one" type of things that little n00bs like. Anyways... get a windows emulator if you really want it, or better yet, install windows on your computer with a bootscreen...

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#6498 - darkcloud - Tue May 27, 2003 9:58 pm

I'd like to see at least an OS X map editor (Touchstone ; ). It would also be nice to have an image converter native for OS X also.

Maybe one day I'll get around to writing some of my own OS X tools.
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#7694 - jma - Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:04 am

crossraleigh wrote:
Why must Catapult and Dragon Basic come with their own IDE, instead of letting me use my own editor? Couldn't the programmers just write the compilers and let me decide the syntax highlighting colors?

Dragon BASIC is a command line compiler. And is written entirely in ANSI C. There will be an OS X and Linux port in the future (be patient). The IDE is for Windows simply because that's what I have... but it is nothing more than an editor.

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#7863 - ampz - Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:55 am

darkcloud wrote:
I'd like to see at least an OS X map editor (Touchstone ; ). It would also be nice to have an image converter native for OS X also.

Maybe one day I'll get around to writing some of my own OS X tools.


Image converter?? A tool that converts a bitmap to a C-style array? There should be tons of such tools available for any OS worth mentioning, cuz such tools are anything but GBA specific.
If there exists no such tool for your OS, then that's a good sign you're the only person alive who uses that OS ;-)

Besides, if you are a programmer, you should be able to put together a ugly image converter in an hour or so.

#7865 - crossraleigh - Fri Jun 27, 2003 4:10 am

jma wrote:
Dragon BASIC is a command line compiler.
Great! Very heartening to hear that. I'm sorry for assuming that is was all integrated, but it isn't really clear on simforth.com, or any docs that I could find online.

Thanks,
Raleigh Cross