Just posting to say hi

[Bobbi]

Hi folks,

I just joined Denial after lurking here for a while. My eyesight is not so good as it was, so I am returning to 22 column computing!! An Ebay package is on its way to me I am excited like an 11 year old all over again!

I had a VIC20 back in 1982 or so. It was finally replaced by a used Apple II in 1986 (and sadly I sold it to raise the money for the Apple II). I remember many happy hours with Scott Adams adventures and playing with VICMON. I guess I have the VIC20 to thank for kicking off my career as a Software Engineer ... 35 years now and counting!

I am thinking to get my 6502 skills back in shape and maybe write a small arcade game or demo of some sort. Actually I am already tinkering a bit using VICMON under Vice. Once I get to real coding though I think I will probably try to assemble on Linux to create a PRG I can load in Vice and debug in VICMON. I will of course migrate to the real hardware eventually, but for day to day development Vice is convenient. I guess I should download and compile cc65 (to use the assembler, not the C compiler.) Any hints and tips?

Other things I am keen to tinker with are SDIEC and the WiModem.

I am seriously awed by some of the expertise on this board. Please exclude my newbieness!!

Greetings from Toronto, Canada!

[Schema]

Hello fellow Torontonian!

Are you aware of TPUG, the Toronto PET Users Group? (http://www.tpug.ca/) We still meet every month and have the big World of Commodore show in December (3-4 this year).

Plenty of VIC fans and expertise in Toronto.

Next meeting is next Thursday actually, October 20th. Directions are on the website. Come out and say hi!

[Bobbi]

Pleased to meet fellow Torontonians! I may have to come out to a TPUG meeting. I have a colleague at work who has a Pet 2001 ... I am trying to encourage him to get it out of storage

[vicist]

Welcome.

It's great to have another programmer back on the scene. Some great new stuff has been produced by members here.

No pressure but I look forward to seeing what you can come up with using your experience as software engineer.

Glad to have you onboard.

[tokra]

I will probably try to assemble on Linux to create a PRG I can load in Vice and debug in VICMON

I can only advise to use the built in VICE-monitor for debugging. You can set watchpoints and more in there. Also it display the current raster-beam-position and so on. Debugging on the live-system is a pain compared.

You should try the CBMprg Studio at http://www.ajordison.co.uk for programming

[Bobbi]

I am just experimenting with the Vice monitor right now. I have been able to assemble a little program using the 'xa65' assembler on Linux, load it into Vice and run it. Fun times!!

[Misfit]

Debugging is overrated

[orion70]

Hello Bobbi, welcome back to the future and greetings from Italy! Have fun with your 3583 bytes free!

[Bobbi]

I have just written 232 bytes of assembly. 3351 bytes to go

[Kakemoms]

Way to go!

Greetings from Norway by the way.

[Bobbi]

Hej san! I visit Sweden from time to time on work.

I am up to 539 bytes of code now, mostly just trying stuff out and writing some utility code to plot on the screen, hook IRQ, set up UDGs etc. Now I guess I have to decide what to turn it into!

Incidentally, I am using the xa65 assembler on Linux and testing in Vice (waiting for my real Vic-20 to arrive from Ebay!).