On 2014-11-12 04:23, Jim Brain wrote: >>>>> even back in the days when commodore was still an active company, >>>>> every decent programming book contained the full kernal (and >>>>> sometimes also basic) sourcecode/disassembly with comments. it >>>>> becoming a problem 30 years later is >>>> If this is the case, it might be fruitful to go searching for e-copies >>>> of some of these books. Perhaps they're available at archive.org or >>>> something (like, for example, Lou Sanders' books are). >>> This is the case but the disassembly done by (seemingly late..) Lee >>> Davison is by far the best ever. And we have it already in text/plain >>> format. >> imho having it in some format that can be assembled into an actual >> binary is a >> must these days - as that is the only (sane) way to make sure it doesnt >> contain errors. >> > I'm highly in favor of this, for the reasons noted. > > I'm also in favor of this being stuffed in git somewhere and cloned all > over. I agree with Nate that atrophy kills a lot of this stuff, but if > it were all in a nice packaged solution that could be cloned on a > regular basis, it would never die. C64 version available under c64/firmware/ at https://github.com/Project-64/reloaded/ VC20 will follow soon. The goal is to have it fully compatible with at least the xa, 64tass and ca65 w/o any modifications. Similar to the 1520 firmware we already have thanks to Jim's + co. and Soci's work. -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-11-12 19:00:03
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