Survey: What do you want to do with the MEGA65?

I'll go for some 15 col. Sprite design. i always loved the Sprites and the Sprites on the MEGA65 offer so much more colors

I look at it like the 12 years old kid i was did when the c64 went at home for XMAS.

Then I connect it to my PC where all my dev tools are installed and I start to program a game

Wait, there is a Choplifter65?

You have forgotten this evil point. "I buy it and sell it on ebay for five times of the original price"

Was this ever a reason not to sell it?

How about all of these answers ? I am so glad the MEGA 65 is finally being released. I'll be able to teach my daughter programming the way I learned programming. And on a nice big screen too instead of an old Commodore 1702 monitor which I'm not sure still works (it's been a while since I've opened those boxes full of Commodore stuff )

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How about all of these answers ? I am so glad the MEGA 65 is finally being released. I'll be able to teach my daughter programming the way I learned programming. And on a nice big screen too instead of an old Commodore 1702 monitor which I'm not sure still works (it's been a while since I've opened those boxes full of Commodore stuff )

Very nice idea !
for teaching your daughter to learn coding, the User Guide that will be shipped with the MEGA65 is the perfect starting point. You'll find all instructions for a powerfull BASIC65
which is on the MEGA65 with 40MHz alot of fun to code with. for assembler you than can swop to our online MEGA65 manual with more than 1100 pages atm, to learn all about the MEGA65s interior.

Yeah that was a missed opportunity with my oldest son. I had him play Mimi la fourmie on VICE C64 since digging back that old 13" 1702 monitor just felt wrong. That game also took more than three minutes to load from a 1541 without either JiffyDos or the Super Snapshot 4 cartridge so yeah. Unfortunately, the mouse and the surrounding Windows UI were huge distractions and he would always switch away from the emulator so I gave up and let him have his YouTube on mommy's cellphone.

In the first step, i will be very happy to own a MEGA65. I will tell as many people. Then i would like to learn as much as possible about my MEGA65. After that, i will dare to program in assembler.

To play anyway.

That is it.

Most important option IMO is missing.

I want to code with it.

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Okay, there's not an extra option for coding. Hmmm, maybe just put it into the second option "I read the manual and type some BASIC65 examples from it."

Only yesterday I noticed that the monitor in the C128 lacks a singlestep feature. Now I checked the manual for the MEGA65 and it seems it is the same here. Any chance that this might be added? With the C64/C128 I can use Vice which is convenient enough. What is the workflow on the MEGA65 to debug code?

On previous Commodore computers the single step technique was not very complicated.

One could count the necessary cycles to return from the monitor to the code and program a counter

to interrupt just after the first cycle of the next instruction is executed.

Doing the same on the C128, C65 or MEGA65 is a nightmare:

- Several CPU speed settings

- Varying cycle count (MEGA65)

- One cyle instructions, that can't be interrupted

- Extended 32 bit mode instructions with prefixes

- Code to be inspected and monitor are likely to reside in different banks or mappings

But in the case of MEGA65 there are several possibilities to use a monitor:

The ROM based monitor, that has no single stepping

Or the monitor on hypervisor level.

This one is probably what you need to use for your purposes.