# About cc65

cc65 is a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems, including
a powerful macro assembler, a C compiler, linker, archiver and several
other tools. cc65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines.
For details look at the [Website](https://cc65.github.io).

## People

Project founders:

* John R. Dunning: [original implementation](https://public.websites.umich.edu/~archive/atari/8bit/Languages/Cc65/) of the C compiler and runtime library, Atari hosted
* Ullrich von Bassewitz:
  * move the code to modern systems
  * rewrite most parts of the compiler
  * complete rewrite of the runtime library

Core team members:

* [Christian Groessler](https://github.com/groessler): Atari, Atari5200, and CreatiVision library Maintainer
* [dqh](https://github.com/dqh-au): GHA help
* [Greg King](https://github.com/greg-king5): all around hackery
* [groepaz](https://github.com/mrdudz): CBM library, Project Maintainer
* [Oliver Schmidt](https://github.com/oliverschmidt): Apple II library Maintainer

External contributors:

* [acqn](https://github.com/acqn): various compiler fixes
* [jedeoric](https://github.com/jedeoric): Telestrat target
* [jmr](https://github.com/jmr): compiler fixes
* [karrika](https://github.com/karrika): Atari 7800 target
* [Stephan Mühlstrasser](https://github.com/smuehlst): osic1p target
* [Wayne Parham](https://github.com/WayneParham): Sym-1 target
* [Dave Plummer](https://github.com/davepl): KIM-1 target
* [rumbledethumps](https://github.com/rumbledethumps): Picocomputer target

*(The above list is incomplete, if you feel left out - please speak up or add yourself in a PR)*

For a complete list look at the [full team list](https://github.com/orgs/cc65/teams) or the list of [all contributors](https://github.com/cc65/cc65/graphs/contributors)

# Contact

For general discussion, questions, etc subscribe to the [mailing list](https://cc65.github.io/mailing-lists.html) or use the [github discussions](https://github.com/cc65/cc65/discussions).

Some of us may also be around on IRC [#cc65](https://web.libera.chat/#cc65) on libera.chat

# Documentation

* The main [Documentation](https://cc65.github.io/doc) for users and developers

* Info on [Contributing](Contributing.md) to the CC65 project. Please read this before working on something you want to contribute, and before reporting bugs.

* The [Wiki](https://github.com/cc65/wiki/wiki) contains some extra info that does not fit into the regular documentation.

# Downloads

* [Windows 64bit Snapshot](https://sourceforge.net/projects/cc65/files/cc65-snapshot-win64.zip)

* [Windows 32bit Snapshot](https://sourceforge.net/projects/cc65/files/cc65-snapshot-win32.zip)

* [Linux Snapshot DEB and RPM](https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Astrik&package=cc65)

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