I've been asked so many time about this so I'd like to describe my 6502 development environment on the PC.
UltraEdit | The basis for any environment is a texteditor, and my choice is UltraEdit. The key reason is that I could easily write a small configuration that allowed syntax highlighting for the assembler I use. I shared this, and it's now available at the UltraEdit site. |
6502 Tass | Marek M from Poland wrote this very nice assembler that takes the source text you've written in your texteditor and assemble it into pure 6502 machinecode. |
VICE |
Normally when I want to emulate the c64 I use CCS64, but for developing my stuff I prefered to have the emulator windowed, and that's something CCS64 won't let you, but VICE does. |
Settings:
In the editor I have used the Configuration -> Tools Editor to set up the shortcuts I want to work it all from the texteditor. This is how it looks: