Motorola MC68000 IDE by Neil MundayThe following program was written by myself in February 2001 using Visual Basic 6.0. It is a full application that provides an Integrated Devlopment Environment (IDE) for writing programs for the Motorola MC68000 processor. I decided to write the program after being frustrated using Notepad and MS-DOS to assemble and run my assembler programs under an emulator. My program integrates these three parts of the development process and reduces development time. It also highlights comments as you type, and handles the deletion of comment characters. In addition to this, it automatically loads the *.lst file associated with the program the user is currently working on. This is automatically re-loaded when the user assembles their code and any warnings or fatals are highlighted for the user, and it adjusts itself to fit any screen resolution. If the user associates assembler source code files (*.asm files) with my IDE, they will be automatically loaded when the user opens an *.asm file. My MC68000 IDE does not assemble and emulate the assembly programs itself, it merely creates a development environment. Therefore, an assembler and emulator for the Motorola MC68000 processor are required in order to use the program. These can be downloaded here. When the program loads for the first time, it will ask the user where the assembler and emulator can be found. The locations of these programs are then stored in order for the IDE to send the user's source code to the assembler and their object code to the emulator. The locations of the assembler and the emulator can be changed later should the user wish to. Below are two screen shots (63% of normal size):
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