While this is an interesting story, it's not generally relevant to the purpose of this community.

While this is an interesting story, it's not generally relevant to the purpose of this community. Except for the fact that the development tool discussed is linked to and available on github. Check it out.

Originally shared by mos6502

This week, macross 6502, from LucasFilm in the mid-80's, "an assembler for people who hate assembly language," by way of Habitat, an early Massive Multiplayer Online game for the C64 - designed to support 10,000 remote C64s, dialled in over Commodore’s Q-Link service and orchestrated by a Stratus server. Our featured link tells of the preservation of Habitat led by the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, and the tools used to write the game...
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The original game design documents can be found at
https://themade.org/posts/732
but let's dig into those tools. Michael Steil posted a good technical description on his blog at
http://web.archive.org/web/20160131174610/http://www.pagetable.com/?p=848
which links to the current github incarnation.

Also there you'll find Chip Morningstar offering this backstory:
"Macross was my first job assignment at Lucasfilm. They urgently wanted to replace the existing assembler they had been using. That one was written in Lisp — you wrote 6502 code in S-expressions, which looked amazingly weird. It was awesomely powerful, because you could use all of Lisp for a macro language, but it was also awesomely slow. It took about 45 minutes on our VAX 750 to assemble a 16K ROM cartridge game, mainly because doing this took 2 megabytes of RAM but the machine only had 512 kilobytes, so it page swapped horribly. My mission was to create a more conventional looking (and performing) assembler without sacrificing much of the macro programming power they had gotten addicted to, hence Macross."

(If you're wondering why you hadn't heard of Habitat, well, firstly the name was changed to Club Caribe on release, and secondly it wasn't very successful.)
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/bringing-habitat-back-to-life.html

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My Commodore SX-64 before and after pictures.

My Commodore SX-64 before and after pictures.