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The Tandy Color Computer and Atari consoles are two great examples of popular game machines sold in the 1980s that ended up having thousands of titles released by many hard-working programmers and companies. Most of these titles were built using some form of painstaking hand-assembly techniques and may have required thousands of hours of intense programming to achieve the final result. A lot of work could have been reduced by any number of automated processes, and the quickest assembly could have been achieved by centralizing everything needed to build the final product.
If we just had a compatible IDE for our favorite vintage console back in the 80s the computer world might be different today? Instead, veteran programmers typically built their games and apps using some form of manual hand-assembly requiring far more hours than if there had been some automated process to help out. Imagine if you could write new games and apps for those vintage computers and consoles much easier than ever before. Perhaps the software market for a particular vintage computer can be revived as well as the interest in its peripherals.
This IDE doesn't restrict you to using one language, assembler, or compiler. You can mix and match any assortment of source files and process them into your final product in one pass. When a file or component is added to your project and it's in view, its properties appear in one of the panels. Components that may be added to your project and edited are bitmap images, bitmap fonts, source code, text files, virtual disks, sprite and tile maps, and more file formats are coming soon. You might want some components to be just copied into your final product and not actually processed by an assembler or compiler, etc. You can quickly see all the settings that can be used to control how that particular component is processed when you click the Go/Build button. Files can even be copied onto virtual disks that are ready to distribute to your customers, and the disks can be mounted in an emulator automatically to experience what the customer will.
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