Ransom Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I saw a couple of threads on coding for the 6502 on the Mac (one from 2004, one from 2009), but I was wondering if there have been any new developments. A Google search turned up several cross-compilers, but they all seemed to be unsupported on the Mac and/or abandoned. What's my best option? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 If you are looking at coding in assembly, I have managed to get working versions of MADS, ATASM and ZASM. I can send you the binaries if you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd-w Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 cc65 has a 6502 assembler and is supported on OS-X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 I'd found those, but none of them appear to have been updated in years. Isn't there anything that's currently maintained? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Eyvind Bernhardsen Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 cc65 has a 6502 assembler and is supported on OS-X. ...and if you use Homebrew, installing it is as easy as "brew install cc65". I dunno about "currently maintained", but how much change do you expect on a compiler for a 40-year-old language on a 30-year-old platform? The cc65 homepage seems to have been updated in the last year, at least. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 I dunno about "currently maintained", but how much change do you expect on a compiler for a 40-year-old language on a 30-year-old platform? It always gives me pause when I see a project that has steady updates for a long time, and then none for a year or more. Is it abandonware? Did the author die? Or is it just bug-free and feature complete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I'd found those, but none of them appear to have been updated in years. Isn't there anything that's currently maintained? If you look on the CC65 FTP server the last example code and libraries (and the compiler system for Windows) are dated 8th of Feb this year. The snapshot was updated this morning. You can't get much more up to date than that . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Ah, that's what I needed to know. Thanks, GroovyBee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 MADS is updated frequently too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Eclipse+wudsn IDE is all you Need. Plus atari800macx or wine plus Altirra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 See www.wudsn.com => WUDSN IDE => Installation. There is the description of the complete download package of cross compilers including MacOS x86+PPC versions. http://www.wudsn.com/downloads/compilers.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Eclipse+wudsn IDE is all you Need. Plus atari800macx or wine plus Altirra I started using these packages tonight. Great combination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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