Reading the quickstart leads me to believe this is quite an interesting project. But imho their website is... not great. Now, this is obviously not an IDE, but a suite of command line tools, but they could still do with some screenshots of example code or simple games that were made with it just for some visual appeal and to grab attention. Visual fluff can make a lot of difference for perception of these projects.
This is a good idea. I've been using it in VSCodium and just pressing F6 to switch to the in-editor terminal to build it. At the end of the build it launches the emulator automatically. Super handy :)
I've heard this but I've only ever had good experiences, especially with JagChris. That said maybe it just bounces off of me because I'm such a newbie.
I don't think it is the same anymore. For some time after the Jag was EOL'ed, many of the alpha devs took a fairly authoritarian view toward anyone wanting to just hack around and learn.
And for a time, there were a few ways one could more fully exploit the hardware. The non 68K processors or at least one was buggy. Problems with JMP type instructions landing a guy in places that were too difficult to recover from.
Of course, there were convoluted ways it could get done and a lot of gatekeeping surrounding all of that.
I remember it being such a difference J was stunned right out of any interest in the machine! All of us early 8 bit people would just disassemble things and the magic was right there for the reading!
On the Jag? Sure! So long as you held your nose and did it anyway, ignoring cries from "those people" who probably had a bit more into the Jag than most would end up doing.
Today, I bet it is like most other scenes. If so, have fun! I think the Jag is an interesting machine and it has some untapped potential.
Or... it did. Perhaps all is known today. I don't know!
And for a time, there were a few ways one could more fully exploit the hardware. The non 68K processors or at least one was buggy. Problems with JMP type instructions landing a guy in places that were too difficult to recover from.
Of course, there were convoluted ways it could get done and a lot of gatekeeping surrounding all of that.
I remember it being such a difference J was stunned right out of any interest in the machine! All of us early 8 bit people would just disassemble things and the magic was right there for the reading!
On the Jag? Sure! So long as you held your nose and did it anyway, ignoring cries from "those people" who probably had a bit more into the Jag than most would end up doing.
Today, I bet it is like most other scenes. If so, have fun! I think the Jag is an interesting machine and it has some untapped potential.
Or... it did. Perhaps all is known today. I don't know!
Lol