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In the same vein, I believe John Carmack used a NeXTStation to develop Doom for the PC[1]. Matthew Smith also used a TRS-80 model III to develop Jet Set Willy

by Lio 4y ago

In the same vein, I believe John Carmack used a NeXTStation to develop Doom for the PC[1]. Matthew Smith also used a TRS-80 model III to develop Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom

PaulHoule 4y ago
The closest I came to this was using a PC AT clone to develop some software for a teacher at my school when I was in high school. (Unless you count using a PC today to develop for Arduino) I thought the teacher had a PC clone so I wrote the first draft of the software in Turbo BASIC, but then I found out she had a CP/M machine but I wasn't fazed very much because there was a good Z80 emulator that ran on my machine so I was able to port the code to run under (I think) MBASIC or CBASIC in CP/M. In this case I was using an emulator to run the same dev tools I would have used in CP/M, I just didn't have a CP/M machine. It ran considerably faster than any real Z-80 machine thanks to the power of a 12Mhz 286 with zero wait states.