C64 ASM?

On 9/13/06, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote: I got my start way back with the official Commodore Assembler, an official copy that arrived some months after my employer was sent a demo C-64 to write software for. I still have my original disks from 1982, so when I'm in the C-64 nvironment, that's what I use. It can be a bit clunky; the tools all center around the BASIC environment with special patches - you enter code as if you were entering BASIC, but when the "EDITOR" is loaded, it doesn't tokenize code, and it adds a couple of commands via a BASIC "Wedge" to allow you to load and save code as SEQential files. In the past few years, though, I've seen massive productivity gains by using a cross assembler under UNIX (dasm is good) and testing under VICE. The cycle goes something like: edit with vi or Emacs, make, then switch to VICE and do a LOAD "myprog",11,1 (device 11 under VICE is an emulated disk drive that maps to whatever VICE thinks is the current directory). Being able to use a large display-space editor is verrry nice compared to what I used to do back in the old days on a real C-64. It allows me to see a lot more code at once, and not worry about wrapping at 40 columns. -ethan