Best Dev Setup for a 576NUC+?

[Lord Thag]

So I've got a NUC+ inbound. I am planning to use it, along with a very comfortable microswitch keyboard, to learn to do some coding on the 8-bit. Mainly due to the fact that's it's far more portable, and I can hook it up to a spare monitor and dink around while doing other things. 

I am well aware of the cross compiling solutions like WUDSN, Mad Pascal etc., and will likely use these for bigger projects, but I'd like to tinker on actual hardware. I'm used to using an U1mb/SDX setup for the Atari, but due to the NUC+ not having a cart solution yet, this won't be an option for now. 

So, do any of you folks have a suggestion for the best/easiest  solution for disk/.atr based coding/programming on a physical 8-bit? I am currently looking at Fastbasic and maybe the disk version of MAC/65. Anything else I should be looking at in terms of languages, editors or IDEs?

[TGB1718]

On real hardware, MAC/65 is still probably the best assembler, any of the BASIC's will do, not used FastBasic myself

as I only really use BASIC to try things out before I code them in MAC/65, so just use built in BASIC

[Wrathchild]

Maybe replace the Basic with the Altirra Basic image, much faster

[+DrVenkman]

8 minutes ago, Wrathchild said:

Maybe replace the Basic with the Altirra Basic image, much faster

It’s already part of the NUC+ custom OS EPROM image. Boot the system with ALT+1 and you’ll have Altirra BASIC plus a patched OS ROM with HSIO and FastMath.  

[Lord Thag]

1 minute ago, DrVenkman said:

It’s already part of the NUC+ custom OS EPROM image. Boot the system with ALT+1 and you’ll have Altirra BASIC plus a patched OS ROM with HSIO and FastMath.  

Ah that's cool, I didn't realize fastmath was already part of the deal, floating point was a huge reason the old Atari basic was so slow. Good to know.

I'll probably flip between that, MAC65, and Action!

Thanks for the tips folks.

[massiverobot]

9 hours ago, DrVenkman said:

It’s already part of the NUC+ custom OS EPROM image. Boot the system with ALT+1 and you’ll have Altirra BASIC plus a patched OS ROM with HSIO and FastMath.  

This is reality coming full circle - a real hardware device now implements improvements from an emulated branch of the original hardware platform.

 

Inception type work here.

[+DrVenkman]

13 minutes ago, massiverobot said:

This is reality coming full circle - a real hardware device now implements improvements from an emulated branch of the original hardware platform.

 

Inception type work here.

It's not the first time Altirra BASIC has been implemented on real hardware. I did this to one of my 600XL's last summer.  And for that matter, Jon generally includes Altirra's reverse-engineered OS ROM as one of the slots in his U1MB firmware downloads. 

[massiverobot]

1 hour ago, DrVenkman said:

It's not the first time Altirra BASIC has been implemented on real hardware. I did this to one of my 600XL's last summer.  And for that matter, Jon generally includes Altirra's reverse-engineered OS ROM as one of the slots in his U1MB firmware downloads. 

 

OK, fair enough. Thanks for keeping me straight. The U1mb makes sense also.