[Caitlin]

I've started moving into Sonic 2, mainly cause I'm having a hell of a time porting Sonic 2 objects to Sonic 1. So, I'll just port what I need from Sonic 1 to Sonic 2. =P

However, I've hit a snag here. It's not detrimental to my work process, but whenever I try messing with S2.asm, it runs so stupidly slow on my computer I can't get any work done. So what I want to do is split out the crap I'll never touch, to reduce the file size. I want to do this similarly to how Hive did in his disassembly. But I've hit the snag right here. =P

So, I opened up the build.bat file for the AS disassembly and got this:

@ECHO OFF
asw -L -cpu 68000 -E -xx -w s2.asm
p2bin s2.p s2built.bin -r $-$

Then, I did this:

@ECHO OFF
include.exe S2.asm S2comb.asm
asw -L -cpu 68000 -E -xx -w S2comb.asm
p2bin s2.p s2built.bin -r $-$

I copied the include.exe file into the disassembly folder and took it for a test spin. It generated a seemingly flawless rom and a S2comb.asm file, but it had nothing in it.

As I said ealier, this isn't exactly important, but this will help me get my work done probably 20x faster, as when I type, it takes 1 second for a letter/number to show up. Would splitting the file up really help speed things up?

[SMTP]

Open sonic2.asm in Wordpad instead of Notepad. It'll go much faster.

[Caitlin]

Ehh, much better. I was using Notepad2, which is usually faster than Wordpad... =P

[Hayate]

Use EditPlus 2. It's pretty much the best text editor for Windows.

It's supposed to be shareware, but the only restriction is a nag screen which you can safely ignore. :P

[Rika Chou]

SMTP, on Dec 15 2006, 02:35 PM, said:

Open sonic2.asm in Wordpad instead of Notepad. It'll go much faster.

Wordpad occasionally formats the text without asking. I personally prefer EditPad Lite.

[Hivebrain]

rika_chou, on Dec 16 2006, 09:41 PM, said:

SMTP, on Dec 15 2006, 02:35 PM, said:

Open sonic2.asm in Wordpad instead of Notepad. It'll go much faster.

Wordpad occasionally formats the text without asking. I personally prefer EditPad Lite.

EditPad Pro is better and has syntax colouring, if you want to buy it or torrent it. Also, I recommend using it with a font called ProggyTiny.

[Stealth]

I like Crimson Editor, myself

[Cinossu]

I personally use TextPad. :x

This post has been edited by Cinossu: 17 December 2006 - 12:03 AM

[Aurochs]

vim is SOOO much better than emacs. Really. Nobody who has access to vim should ever use emacs, cuz emacs sucks.

[LocalH]

Aurochs, on Dec 17 2006, 12:27 AM, said:

vim is SOOO much better than emacs. Really. Nobody who has access to vim should ever use emacs, cuz emacs sucks.

lol nano ftw

[Sazpaimon]

I'm more of a fan of <a href=http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/>Notepad++</a> myself.

[Hayate]

Aurochs, on Dec 17 2006, 05:27 AM, said:

vim is SOOO much better than emacs. Really. Nobody who has access to vim should ever use emacs, cuz emacs sucks.

Both of them suck. End of story. :P

[Ambil]

ConTEXT

Freeware, it has programmable F-keys, and you can create your own highlighters.

Recommended by Maxim, programmer of SMS Power.

This post has been edited by Ambil: 18 December 2006 - 09:03 AM