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@ -14,23 +14,29 @@ as used in many home computers from that era. It is a medium to low level progra
which aims to provide many conveniences over raw assembly code (even when using a macro assembler):
- reduction of source code length
- easier program understanding (because it's higher level, and more terse)
- option to automatically run the compiled program in the Vice emulator
- easier program understanding (because it's higher level, and way more compact)
- modularity, symbol scoping, subroutines
- subroutines have enforced input- and output parameter definitions
- various data types other than just bytes (16-bit words, floats, strings, 16-bit register pairs)
- automatic variable allocations, automatic string variables and string sharing
- constant folding in expressions (compile-time evaluation)
- conditional branches
- automatic type conversions
- floating point operations
- floating point operations (uses the C64 Basic ROM routines for this)
- abstracting away low level aspects such as ZeroPage handling, program startup, explicit memory addresses
- various code optimizations (code structure, logical and numerical expressions, unused code removal...)
Rapid edit-compile-run-debug cycle:
- use modern PC to work on
- quick compilation times (less than 1 second)
- option to automatically run the program in the Vice emulator
- breakpoints, that let the Vice emulator drop into the monitor if execution hits them
- source code labels automatically loaded in Vice emulator so it can show them in disassembly
- conditional gotos
- various code optimizations (code structure, logical and numerical expressions, ...)
It is mainly targeted at the Commodore-64 machine at this time.
Contributions to add support for other 8-bit (or other?!) machines are welcome.
Documentation is online at https://prog8.readthedocs.io/
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A recent .exe version of this tool for Windows can be obtained from my [clone](https://github.com/irmen/64tass/releases) of this project.
For other platforms it is very easy to compile it yourself (make ; make install).
A **Java runtime (jre or jdk), version 8 or newer** is required to run the packaged compiler.
If you want to build it from source, you'll need a Kotlin 1.3 SDK as well (or for instance,
A **Java runtime (jre or jdk), version 8 or newer** is required to run a prepackaged version of the compiler.
If you want to build it from source, you'll need a Java SDK + Kotlin 1.3.x SDK (or for instance,
IntelliJ IDEA with the Kotlin plugin).
It's handy to have a C-64 emulator or a real C-64 to run the programs on. The compiler assumes the presence