Best Macro Assembler?

[RJBowman]

What would be the best assembler for programming the VIC-20? will be using a Windows machine for coding and will be testing the code on an emulator.

[majikeyric]

I personally use Acme (v0.95.6 is available here : http://www.emu64.de/acme/) with UltraEdit Studio and it suits me very well
but there are also two great IDEs to develop for cbm computers:

C64Studio (http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/en/c64.html) and CBMPrgStudio (http://www.ajordison.co.uk/).

[groepaz]

Acme, 64tass, ca65, dreamass ... all pretty good. matter of taste mostly

[FD22]

KickAssembler, with Eclipse+WUDSN IDE.

[Kakemoms]

CBM prg studio

A really good programming environment with multiple files support, charmap edit ++. You can even include basic statements!

[beamrider]

CA65/CC65 and Notepad++ for me with 'Explorer' and 'NppExec' plugins. I used to use CBMPRG studio for graphics, but now use my own web based graphics tool.

[tlr]

I'm using dasm since way back. It's pretty good for my purposes but if I were to choose now I would probably pick 64tass.

[pixel]

https://github.com/svenmichaelklose/bender

To be honest: it's terrible when errors occur and you didn't write it yourself. Was supposed to ease what's driving every 6502 developer crazy, like memory layout and cycle counting. But it ended up just being a regular, unfinished assembler which doesn't make proper use of Lisp. If you ever heard the phrase "Lisp makes you a better developer even if you won't use it." That's absolutely true.