This project comprises of a set of plugins to the Eclipse IDE that adds support for building Commodore 64 applications using the Kick Assembler for the MOS 6510 processor and the VICE emulator for running and debugging. This project's focus will be on editing and debugging – not resource management, of which there are many other excellent tools.
It is still in a very early stage, but it is usable and currently have the following features:
- Editor based on the 6502 TextMate grammar
- As with most Eclipse based editors:
- "Quick diff" and revision information
- Task and bookmarks
- Search and navigation
- Block selection
TODOandFIXMEmarkers
- Tooltips for 6510 mnemonics
- Tooltips for the Commodore 64 memory map
Note
The editor is being rewritten in order to ease reuse and provide better than basic editing features and tooltips.
- Built in Kick Assembler compiler
- Built in VICE emulator
- Currently only macOS on ARM
- 64bit Windows GTK version (planned)
- 64bit macoS Intel GTK version (planned)
- Automatic compilation when a file has changed
- The source hierarchy is automatically calculated, so no need to specify main files.
- Problem markers when a compilation produces errors
- Compilation output to the Commodore Commander console
- Launch the VICE emulator when double clicking a
*.prgfile - Launches will automatically pick up VICE configuration files found either in the same folder as the program, or in any of it's parent folders.
The debugger implements a VICE Binary Monitor interface and is currently fairly basic. The plan is to implement a fully featured debugger.
- Support for Eclipse run and debug launch shortcuts.
- Debug launches will in addition automatically pick up
*.vsfiles created by Kick Assembler passes these to VICE.- Symbol declarations
.breakand.trace
- Support for suspend, resume and terminate
- Registers view show changed values since last break in yellow
- Disassembly view show the current disassambly along with the PC