Modern Day Development Tools
Software development on the Commodore 64 never really stopped, there are many tools available today including IDE's such as CBM prg Studio, Relaunch64 and WUDSN IDE which is a plug-in for the Open source Eclipse IDE. Along with small C compilers (cc65) there are many assemblers and cross assemblers to be used on modern day PCs:
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- Turbo Assembler
- Kick Assembler by Mads Nielsen
- dasm
- acme
- ca65 (which is part of cc65.)
- c64asm
Tools such as PuCrunch, a LZ77 data and executable self extracting compression program are also available released under GNU LGPL. Sprite editors like Sprite Pad allow you to design C64 Sprites and animations using Windows. GoatTracker allows you to write music using modern OS's and uses the ReSID engine.
Using CodeNet it is possible to transfer and execute programs to a C64 via a TCP/IP network cable from a PC. Although this does require an Ethernet adapter on the C64 such as Individual Computers RR-Net or an appropriate version of Gideon Zweijtzers 1541u.
C64 Codebase and C64 Wiki are good sources of information for programming on the Commodore 64. Fairlight provide an extensive list of tools to help as well as Lemon64.
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