Developing for the c64 in 2021

At the Transmission64 2021 Fall Edition online c64 party, Bacchus of Fairlight (Pontus Berg) talked about different development environments available to those wanting to develop for the Commodore 64 today.

Please also visit Fairtlight TV for more interesting talks:

[sluxi]

41 years have passed and just another 41 until we can have a video with the title "Developing for the C64 in '64"

[pleasurepain]

Great overview of the C64 coding landscape

[Pau_Pau]

I love C64 keyboard!
I know its difficult to type on, but it is *one nifty looking keyboard!!*

[agpxnet]

I've also used a C compiler (with inline assembler) to write games.

[tarekdemiati]

Bring some FLT coders for some tutorials coding tutorial on modern dev tool kit on the C64.

[igork]

Great video and presentation. Thank you very much.

[FairLight]

Do have a look at the other videos we have released in the Fairlight TV context here:

[gjermundification]

7:30 My preference these days is the original Apple Extended Keyboard II in which is ALPS-based or Das Keyboard BADASS 4 Cherry MX Brown.

[gjermundification]

My house has WIndows. What kind of "glue" do people use for Linux or MacOS X?

[gavinw]

When I attempt to run the simple program at 28:43, C64 Studio crashes silently. Where can we go for help on these matters? Update: CBM Studio + CCS64 worked without issue. And does it matter that my Vice is (C64SC) .. no idea what the difference is, or why it's different. Update: C64sc is simply the newer emulator, which claims to be a more accurate simulation.

I'd like to also add that VS Code is not VS - they are completely different products. It's not the text editor part of VS. They are nothing alike. There's a bit to say about that. VS Code is certainly getting better. But I've found some workloads are just too difficult to setup in VS Code, and some not even possible. I'm sure vice-versa is also true. My point is that they are different products. And VS Code is not light weight VS. If you want light weight VS, free for small teams and individuals, use Visual Studio Community Edition. If you want to do the things that VS Code does, like low-power workloads such as C64 dev and other particular kinds of development, then just use VS Code.