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by RandomNobody
Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:45 pm
Forum: NESdev
Topic: Historical Development Environment
Replies: 6
Views: 8475

Re: Historical Development Environment

Was everyone on MS-DOS? No. This was sufficiently early that there was no PC monopoly. We know of people using C64s, Ataris, and a bunch of Japan-specific computers. ccovell has some pictures of magazines describing the development process https://chrismcovell.com/secret.html#calendar Did Nintendo ...
by RandomNobody
Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:30 am
Forum: NESdev
Topic: Historical Development Environment
Replies: 6
Views: 8475

Historical Development Environment

I'm curious what a NES programming environment looked like during the early days of the NES. Was everyone on MS-DOS? Did Nintendo ship developers an assembler and example code? Did they have access to something resembling a debugger? Did they use any type of source control? It must have been tough w...