pedgarcia Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) As by-product of my most recent article (https://vintageisthenewold.com/going-into-action-with-atari-xl-xe-part-4-using-vscode-and-action-with-syntax-highlighting/), I have crated a syntax highlighting for VSCode. I haven't found anything similar for this editor, so I hope it will be useful for more people other than myself! If you use vscode already it can be installed from the Extension explorer. Just search for "OSS Action". You can also download from here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pgarcia.ossaction Bug reports and suggestions are welcome. Cheers Edited January 30, 2021 by pedgarcia 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zbyti Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 (edited) @pedgarcia referring to your article: Quote Around this time the three of us took delivery of proper PC based development systems from Catalyst. Each of us received a then state-of- the-art Opus 80286 PC with monochrome monitor running DOS and a professional cross-development package. The business end of the PC development was handled by a PDS (Programmer's Development System) board, which was really just a parallel I/O card that would connect to the target machine (at the time a Spectrum, Amstrad or C64) via a simple interface. On the target machine you'd load a small piece of code that would sit there polling the lines and waiting for a signal supplied by a custom assembler running on the PC - as soon as you'd assembled on the PC and used the SEND Command the target machine would transfer the object code and you'd be up and running in about a second. The download code for the target machines came in three versions, 'dumb', 'smart' and 'interrupt driven' with the latter running under interrupts allowing the PC to monitor, control and even change the code on the target machine while the game was running, which wasn't really a lot of use if you were trying to write time critical code but it did have a nice line in real-time Trace functions. (...) The PDS system was originally developed by Andrew Glaister, Argonaut's Jez San and Fouad (Foo) Katan of Bits to help create the game Skyline Attack but ended up becoming a business in it's own right, P.D. Systems Ltd. The going rate for a PDS system was £500 and the cost of the PC was £1200 (...) This quote is taken from free book It's Behind You - The Making Of A Computer Game By Bob Pape http://www.bizzley.com/ Edited October 24, 2020 by zbyti free book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedgarcia Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 On 10/24/2020 at 6:24 AM, zbyti said: @pedgarcia referring to your article: This quote is taken from free book It's Behind You - The Making Of A Computer Game By Bob Pape http://www.bizzley.com/ Cool @zbyti. I actually read this book years ago and I remember he mentioned that indeed. I have added this reference to the article. THanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 On 10/23/2020 at 4:24 PM, pedgarcia said: As by-product of my most recent article (https://vintageisthenewold.com/going-into-action-with-atari-xl-xe-part-4-using-vscode-and-action-with-syntax-highlighting/), I have crated a syntax highlighting for VSCode. I haven't found anything similar for this editor, so I hope it will be useful for more people other than myself! If you use vscode already it can be installed from the Extension explorer. Just search for "OSS Action". You can also download from here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pgarcia.ossaction Bug reports and suggestions are welcome. Cheers Using the plugin regularly. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedgarcia Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Thanks @Ripdubski! I am glad to see it is useful to more people! Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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