Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Alex Herbert Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: What's the point of CodeWarrior ?? Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 02:42:03 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 47 Message-ID: <35B14EEA.60974A67@ndirect.co.uk> References: <35AFC525.5495@virgin.net> Reply-To: aherbert@ndirect.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin0-28.ndirect.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.beginners:435 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:1454 Pankaj Gautama wrote: > At the time of purchasing my Yaroze, I also opted for CodeWarrior at the > awfully decent £90 ;-). > > I unpacked the Yaroze, read the startup guide and proceeded to look at > some demos, compiling and editing from the wonderful DOS prompt. > > This worked fine. > > Two weeks later (I only do stuff on the Yaroze at Weekends), I thought I > should try out CodeWarrior. > > What a pile of cack! There's nothing there that I can't do from DOS. > Granted, I have coding experience and am familiar with makefiles, > projects and also change control, but to fork out £90 for a glorified > (bad) editor, with a Yaroze comms program only marginally easier to use > than SIOCONS, I feel is a complete waste. (sorry for the long sentence - > bad grammar an' all). Yes, CW is a little rough round the edges to say the least. > > > Unfortunately, I think there's a two week return period for CodeWarrior, > hence, even though I don't use this product, there's no way for me to > get my money back! > > Let this be a warning for those who're thinking of buying it - the IDE's > a bit crap and the only reason to get it is if you can't suss out > makefiles. > > If any of you know of anything decent that CodeWarrior CAN do, then > please let me know, cos I just don't get it! I like the fact that I can compile and run my code with a single button press. I like the way the compiler points to erronous code in an editor window so it can be corrected there and then. But the main reason I stick with CW is the dynamic loading - load a TIM, copy to VRAM, load next TIM at same location etc etc. Saves a hell of a lot of memory. Now I have it, I can't live without it! Herbs