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List of Vintage Computer Development Tools

Started by Jackdaw, Jun 17, 2025, 06:55 PM

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Jackdaw

This is is going to be the start of a list of useful links to various tools for programming vintage computers. If anyone adds some gems, then they will be added to this post, so people don't have to go through every post.

NOTE: Many of these linked sites have not been checked for what contents they offer.
If they don't appear to be what is advertised, or look suspicious. Then PM an administrator so they can be removed.
So use at your own risk.

Commodore 64/128/VIC-20
Commodore 64 Integrated Development Environments
C64 Studio
Relaunch64
CBM .prg Studio

Commodore 64 Assemblers and Compilers
ACME Assembler
Kick Assembler
cc65 C Compiler

Commodore 8 bit Emulators
The Versatile Commodore Emulator (VICE64)
Hoxs64
C64 Forever

ZX Spectrum 16K/48K/128K/+2/+3
ZX Spectrum Integrated Development Environments
Klive IDE (This still looks as though it's still in early development, but seams to be useful)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum Assemblers and Compilers
sjasmplus Asssembler
zasm
pasmo Assembler
Boriel BASIC Compiler

Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulators
ZX Spectrum 4 .net
Free Ubix Spectrum Emulator (aka FUSE)
Speccy
#CSpect
zesarux
Speculator

Atari 8 Bit Systems
Atari Assemblers and Compilers
Madass
ATasm

Atari 8bit Emulators
Stella
z26
PC Atari Emulator
javaatari
Altirra
Atari800

Amstrad CPC
CPCtelra
CPCsdk

Acorn Computers Assemblers and compilers
Beebasm

Acorn Computers Emulators
BeebEm (original site not secure, so using github)
Articulator
ArcEM

More systems to follow......

Multi-Platform Vintage Computers
Assemblers, IDEs and Compilers
Turbo Rascal Syntax Error (Useful, but some systems are not fully supported yet)
Retro Assembler (Hasn't been updated since 29 April 2022)
Z88DK (Multi platform Z80 C compiler)
Kick-C
8bit workshop (A web based IDE)
rasm

Multi-Platform Vintage Computers Audio and Sound
Arkos Tracker

Emulators
Denise Emulator (C64 & Amiga 1000/500)
Pantheon
Ares
M.A.M.E
Retro Arch
Batocera (If you've got a spare computer, then here's the ultimate games machine)
Retro Virtual Machine
If you've dug yourself into a hole. Just keep digging. You're bound to come out the other side eventually.

Krischan

I'm in love with Denise, emulates Amiga and C64:
Denise Emulator

This tools converts images to C64:
MUSC Hires Converter

You cannot view this attachment.

Generic C64 Unpacker:
Unp64
Kind regards

Krischan

Win11: Core i9 Ultra 285K, Nvidia RTX 5080, 64GB
Win10: Core i7 9700K, RTX 2080, 64GB
Amiga 500, MC68000, Agnus, 512K Chip + 512K Fast
C64, MOS 6510, VIC-II, 64K

Krischan's Blitzbasic archive

Baggey

Quote from: Krischan on Jun 17, 2025, 07:16 PMI'm in love with Denise, emulates Amiga and C64:
Denise Emulator

This tools converts images to C64:
MUSC Hires Converter

You cannot view this attachment.

Generic C64 Unpacker:
Unp64

awesome dude going to be looking into some off these!  ;)
Running a Pc that just aint. Faster nough. I7-4Ghz, 32Gb Ram, 4Gb Nvidia, 2 x 1Tb SSD's, 2 x 24" LCD's

RETRO everything!

Jesus was only famous because of his Dad

Krischan

There are so many other interesting projects out there.

These can simply be uploaded to your own webserver, or a local XAMPP:
DeluxePaint Demo |DeluxePaint Github
Chromadith Demo | Chromadith Github
Retro Image Tool Demo | Retro Image Tool Github

Hint: you can drag your own image into the RIT page, or play with the sample

This one looks also interesting but is more difficult to setup:
retropixels Demo | retropixels Github
Kind regards

Krischan

Win11: Core i9 Ultra 285K, Nvidia RTX 5080, 64GB
Win10: Core i7 9700K, RTX 2080, 64GB
Amiga 500, MC68000, Agnus, 512K Chip + 512K Fast
C64, MOS 6510, VIC-II, 64K

Krischan's Blitzbasic archive

Amanda_Dearheart

Thanks, Jackdaw.

This list of tools will help out much, especially the c-64 paint conversion program.

Baggey

Quote from: Amanda_Dearheart on Jun 30, 2025, 07:56 PMThanks, Jackdaw.

This list of tools will help out much, especially the c-64 paint conversion program.

Pixelformer is good! But you have to Export.  :D
Running a Pc that just aint. Faster nough. I7-4Ghz, 32Gb Ram, 4Gb Nvidia, 2 x 1Tb SSD's, 2 x 24" LCD's

RETRO everything!

Jesus was only famous because of his Dad

Amanda_Dearheart


Baggey

Quote from: Amanda_Dearheart on Jun 30, 2025, 08:12 PMWould exporting be a problem?

No. It try's to save in it's own format i think .pxf. Or something like that. But all you do is save as export and you can have .png .bmp .jpg.
Just as normall. It really is a nice piece of free Software.
Running a Pc that just aint. Faster nough. I7-4Ghz, 32Gb Ram, 4Gb Nvidia, 2 x 1Tb SSD's, 2 x 24" LCD's

RETRO everything!

Jesus was only famous because of his Dad