Posted December 12, 2021 by 8bitsten
After a crazy week of searching forums, downloading tools, setting the development environment, and of course "programming" in assembler and many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many errors I have finally something. It is small and ugly, but it is here.
I put together a few 6502 assembler instructions to show a string on the top of the screen and change the border in the endless loop by switching between black and red color.
After building it into a binary .prg file, it runs on the VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator).
Besides the code itself, I made, what I consider an acceptable makefile and I explored a way of debugging the code using the command line Monitor tool, which is bundled with the VICE emulator.
So there is some progress. With that speed and learning curve, I am afraid I will not be able before mid-2022 to display a circle on the screen.
I was thinking there might be another lost person, who plans doing the same, so in the future, I will put here a devlog about:
But now enjoy the video of the first release: