Advice sought on Monitor cartridge

[JonBrawn]

I would like to ask for some advice. I need some kind of assembler tool in a cartridge that I can use for knocking together short pieces of code, saving them to disk, and doing some rudimentary debugging. I'm aware of VICmon, but I'd like something a bit more capable.

What do you recommend?

[Mike]

I'm aware of VICmon, [...]

Then you are also aware that VICMON has the ugly habit of messing up zeropage and OS workspace?

I need some kind of assembler tool in a cartridge that I can use for knocking together short pieces of code, saving them to disk, and doing some rudimentary debugging.

I am fairly sure MINIMON fits the bill. Please see those two threads here, "WIP: VIC-2020 MINIMON cartridge" and "A sample debugging session with MINIMON" for more background info.

[...] I'd like something a bit more capable.

With any of the available monitors, you get a more or less a comparable feature set. It's more a question of which annoying misfeatures had been left out for the better. For more complex test programs, you'd need a symbolic (cross-)assembler anyhow.

We can discuss further details in PM.

[chysn]

wAx2 is the best native assembler ever released for the VIC-20. It's available as a free download here:

https://github.com/Chysn/VIC20-wAx2/tree/main/vic

Or for purchase on cartridge (with +27K RAM on board) here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1171784258 ... xe-edition

The ways in which it is better than VICmon and HESmon are too numerous to mention; but see the manual, which is also pretty kick-ass, and has several tutorials throughout:

https://github.com/Chysn/VIC20-wAx2/wiki