Heaven/TQA Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 i am dreaming of a nice SDK which helps me coding bigger projects in 6502... at the moment i am using XASM and Crimson text editor... but is there a 6502 text editor for PC out there which shows me in a separate window all labels used / vars used so i can directly jump to? like in any C++ editor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Don't think so. But, ATASM can assemble directly to .A8S SaveState files. So, in theory you could probably setup a batch file/script which does the Assembly and loads up the file in one of the interactive Disassemblers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted August 6, 2006 Author Share Posted August 6, 2006 ok... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 An Eclipse plug-in for 6502 ASM would be cool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjb Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I often dream of someone taking something like ATASM and merging it with an emulator like Atari800 Win+ along with an IDE to make the ultimate development environment (for 8-bit Ataris that is). It would be really cool to write the assembly code, assemble it, set break points, step through the code, etc. It would make debugging graphics output much much easier. It seems like all the individual pieces are there, it would just be a matter of integrating them all (not a trivial task I know). At times I debug individual subroutines using a 6502 simulator which is great but it sure would be nice to step through it in the context of an 8-bit emulator. -tjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfused Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I often dream of someone taking something like ATASM and merging it with an emulator like Atari800 Win+ along with an IDE to make the ultimate development environment (for 8-bit Ataris that is). It would be really cool to write the assembly code, assemble it, set break points, step through the code, etc. It would make debugging graphics output much much easier. It seems like all the individual pieces are there, it would just be a matter of integrating them all (not a trivial task I know). At times I debug individual subroutines using a 6502 simulator which is great but it sure would be nice to step through it in the context of an 8-bit emulator. -tjb Hit F8? It would be nice though if some assembler could export labels and the emulator could import them. I am thinking the assembler from CC65 can output some kind of symbols a certain C64 emulator can read? I would just settle for Atari800Plus would adjust its internal equates to the 5200 when running a 5200 program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 A800WinPLus already has support for this, but expects labels in a slightly different format (xasm) and so a transform on the CC65 outputs is required. The debugger command is 'LABELS <filename>' Regards, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 This shell command can reform a LD65 label file to something that can be used in the debugger: echo "X-Assembler " > new.lbl; echo "Label table:" >> new.lbl; sed "s/^al 0.\(....\) \.\(.*\)/a \1 \2/" barb.lbl >> new.lbl But in trying the debugger it looks like the resolution of a label back to its address seems to go wrong - so now we have to debug that first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjb Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I often dream of someone taking something like ATASM and merging it with an emulator like Atari800 Win+ along with an IDE to make the ultimate development environment (for 8-bit Ataris that is). It would be really cool to write the assembly code, assemble it, set break points, step through the code, etc. It would make debugging graphics output much much easier. It seems like all the individual pieces are there, it would just be a matter of integrating them all (not a trivial task I know). At times I debug individual subroutines using a 6502 simulator which is great but it sure would be nice to step through it in the context of an 8-bit emulator. -tjb Hit F8? It would be nice though if some assembler could export labels and the emulator could import them. I am thinking the assembler from CC65 can output some kind of symbols a certain C64 emulator can read? I would just settle for Atari800Plus would adjust its internal equates to the 5200 when running a 5200 program. I was thinking more along the lines of writing the code, assembling it, and running it without leaving the IDE. You'd set breakpoints directly in your source code like any of the modern IDE's like Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc. Maybe I've just become spoiled using such environments... -tjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 so now we have to debug that first Found the problem here... The monitor is uppercasing the value string before checking the label tables as all of the 'internal' labels are in uppercase. I think this is wrong and should either a) be deferred until you've check your own symbols case-insensitively or b) have the loader convert you labels to uppercase upon loading them b) would probably suffice but I'd prefer a) as the display will list your labels in a way more easily recognisable to your sources. Regards, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 i would prefer an all-in-one integrated suite like visualstudio to be honest... or borland c++ suite... but havent knew that atari800win is xasm lable compatible... i guess having label names would make looking into code in the monitor much more userfriendly... thank good that all my dev is xasm-based... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gest Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 An Eclipse plug-in for 6502 ASM would be cool... Last year I found a Z80 plugin for Eclipse 3.0 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/z80eclipse/ Based upon this, I made a 6502 plugin which I'm currently using for my C64 projects. Also, I've configured DASM as an "External Tool" in Eclipse. You can see a screenshot of it all here (Mac OS X). The plugin doesn't work with Eclipse 3.1, unfortunately. And the original Z80 plugin is "no longer under active development". The 6502 plugin is available here. And its source code is available here. Regards, Geir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 can not get eclipse 3.0? anybody with some help? just discovered this one... http://jledger.proboards19.com/index.cgi?b...read=1152227310 which looks like what i want to have adapted for a800... it seem to have dasm support so it should be configurable for 800... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gest Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 can not get eclipse 3.0? anybody with some help? Old versions of Eclipse are available here: http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 There was a similar topic here: Link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Old Thread, new post I also always wanted to have a free 6502 editor with close compiler integration. And now - there it is! I have started to create an Eclipse plugin based on the openarchitectureware DSL tool called xText. The result after some weeks is: ATASM source editor in Eclipse Syntax highlighting (keywords, comments, strings) Block comment toggling (Ctrl+/) Syntax checks as you type (e.g. invalid keyword) Reference checks as you save (e.g. undefined label used) Outline with all equate definitions, macro definitions and code sections (origins) Different icons for equates, labels and macros Hotlink navigation to definition of labels and equates (Ctrl+click) Hotkey for compiling current file with ATASM and start it in Atari800Win (Ctrl+0) Compile errors and warnings are reported directly in Eclipse in the "Problems" view, click positions cursor Automated positioning to first error/warning I'll release a first trial as soon as it is stable and usable. Any comments welcome! Best regards, Peter/JAC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland p Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Looks like my wishes are fullfilled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted March 23, 2009 Author Share Posted March 23, 2009 Hello Jac! nice to read... any chance for MADS integration instead of ATASM? Old Thread, new post I also always wanted to have a free 6502 editor with close compiler integration. And now - there it is! I have started to create an Eclipse plugin based on the openarchitectureware DSL tool called xText. The result after some weeks is: ATASM source editor in Eclipse Syntax highlighting (keywords, comments, strings) Block comment toggling (Ctrl+/) Syntax checks as you type (e.g. invalid keyword) Reference checks as you save (e.g. undefined label used) Outline with all equate definitions, macro definitions and code sections (origins) Different icons for equates, labels and macros Hotlink navigation to definition of labels and equates (Ctrl+click) Hotkey for compiling current file with ATASM and start it in Atari800Win (Ctrl+0) Compile errors and warnings are reported directly in Eclipse in the "Problems" view, click positions cursor Automated positioning to first error/warning I'll release a first trial as soon as it is stable and usable. Any comments welcome! Best regards, Peter/JAC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+selgus Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 So guess one less thing I need to have on my backlog then... --Selgus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjb Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Excellent! I can't wait. I'm glad to see someone else uses ATASM. tjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 I've also got preference for AtAsm. But, a good environment would be to be able to use whatever external assembler you wanted. I'll have to check this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted March 24, 2009 Author Share Posted March 24, 2009 Jac, does it have code version controll? I am using http://www.componentsoftware.com/news.htm for Beyond Evil... very handy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Hi Heaven, @version control That does not not depend on my editor. Version control APIs are provided for every file in Eclipse, provided the version control provider also has an Eclipse plugin. I know of CSV and Subversion (called subclipse) plugins and I also have already used some others also. @mads Once I have is running for ATASM, it can of course be adapted to additional assemblers, but for each of them I'll have to create a new grammar and log parsing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland p Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 @peter.dell, I hope it will be possible to use the plugin with DASM for Atari 2600 development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorf Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 If I am not mistaken, for those that have MSVC++ IDE, Im pretty sure you can set just about any cross whatever up to allow for this. I know Scott(JagMod) has something like this set up for Jaguar coding. I may be mistaken. It may not be this elabortate but Im pretty sure he uses MSVC++ IDE for this. I believe it is how you set up all the project parameters. Im not so sure it can act as a debuger for 6502 based code but perhaps a plugin or something could be constructed to allow for 6502 code and variable tracking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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