Development Tools

[martin lytz <mlytz@mindspring.com>]

Hello,
I have been building my technical library on the IIgs since I purchased
one a few weeks ago and am slowly but surely finding the publications
out there on the net.

I visited ByteWorks and found they had two sets of tools available for
sale at their website - the ORCA C compiler & Assembler, and the Apple
MPW C compiler & Assembler.  I would like to use the IIgs as the machine

of choice to write code on but can I do that with the MPW tools?  Are
the debuggers any good?  If I am stuck using a mac (God forbid) for
development are there any in circuit emulators for use with the mac with
the IIgs as the target?  I prefer not to use a mac if at all possible.

ByteWorks emailed me that the ORCA tools could run native on the IIgs
with enough system resources.  Is this toolset stable?  What about
debuggers?

Other searches on the net revealed other tool vendors for the 65C816.
Has anyone had any experience with any of the in circuit emulator
manufacturers for this part?  I can use a pc to run these and plug the
pod into the IIgs processor socket so the pc would be inevitable.

I come from an embedded computer hw/sw/fw development environment so I
was a bit surprised to not see a c compiler, linker, and assembler
rolled into one product like what is available in the microcontroller
world.  But, the tools don't break the bank so I guess that's that.

TIA for your input,

Martin