601.229.02 (F19): C64 and 6502 resources

This page has some information about the 6502 and the Commodore 64, including information to help you write and test 6502 code using a C64 emulator.

Easy 6502: Easy 6502 web-based 6502 assembler and emulator

VICE (Commodore emulator):

VICE is a software emulator for a variety of Commodore computers including the C64. The C64 emulator program provided by VICE is named x64.

• VICE website: main website, Windows binaries
• Building VICE 3.3 on Linux: instructions for building VICE on Linux systems, worked for me on Linux Mint 19.1 (which based on Ubuntu 18.04), should work on other distros
• SMON information page, SMON download page

SMON is a simple but useful monitor program that allows you to

• Inspect and modify memory
• Write assembly language code
• Disassemble memory into assembly language instructions

The SMON download is a C64 disk image: attach it as Drive 8 in VICE (File→Attach disk image→Drive #8), load from BASIC with

LOAD"SMONFC000",8,1

and then execute from BASIC with

SYS 49152