What VIC-20 development programs are there for PC or MAC?

[gorf68]

What Mac or preferably PC based tools are there for programming/testing assembly programs for the VIC-20?

My old VIC was the first system I owned, and after looking at some of the amazing things people have done with it over the years I think it’s about time I tried to do some new games programming for it.

[Impaler_26]

First of all you need a good emulator - i'd recommend VICE, a great C64 emulator which also emulates the VIC-20, C128 and PLUS4.

[gorf68]

I've heard of the 'Quetzalcoatl' C Cross assembler for the VIC-20, but I assume any 6502 assembler will do if I'm going to program directly in assembly.

 

Will VICE work with the file generated from any 6502 asembler?

Or do I need something else to convert these to a recognisable format first?

 

 

Has anybody used Quetzalcoatl, or is there a better alternative?

Edited October 22, 2012 by gorf68

[Rybags]

CMB PRG Studio supports most C= 8-bit machines.

 

Raw binary images from "any assembler" can be used in Vice. The 1st 2 bytes should hold the program start address, generally you manually code a short Basic program into your module that has a SYS statement that runs the program.

[gorf68]

I’ve had a quick Google of CMB PRG Studio and it sounds like an ideal candidate for getting me started, thanks!