On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:53:23PM -0700, Richard Terrell wrote:
> could i get a poll of what people use as their developement platform? There
> are so many tools out there, it's a little hard for a newbie to understand
> which is the best to use. i'm interested in:
>
> 1. operating system

Linux (Debian).

> 2. compiler / plugins / tools

gcc, but I really only use gas and ld from binutils. Link script based
on one from devkitadvance, I seem to recall.

noweb for literate assembler programs.

> 3. IDE / Editor / plugins

vim (and sometimes emacs, but usually vim because it handles noweb a bit
better, with folding, too).

> 4. Graphics tools

grafx2 via dosbox -- great pixel editor in the style of dpaint.

I use my own tools to extract tilemaps, sprites, palettes, lines (for
physics and level data) and so on from the PCXs output by grafx2. Lots
of personal tools for optimizing data, compressing levels, et cetera.

> 5. Sound tools

arecordmidi; a hand-rolled tool for converting MIDI, XM, and MML to an
internal player format; audacity for sampling; soundtracker for
sequencing sample-based sections.

> 6. Emulator / Hardware tools

visualboyadvance, and a parallel port flashlinker.


There's still a lot I've been meaning to do with my setup, though, but I
haven't done anything with the GBA in a while because of other work.

HTH.

--
Julian Squires