Symbol Engine

I know some people still like the feeling of the original C64 keyboard when they code assembly but memory problems and frequent crashes while directly accessing resources on a real C= give coders who dont own a ram expansion or a cartridge one hell of a headache. Cross development on a PC is a nice alternative. Here is my Cross development toolbox:

Relaunch64 IDE
This IDE is strictly for C64 assembly crossdevelopment and has very nice features. It has syntax highlighting and can easily be configured to use a number of CrossAssemblers, Crunchers and Emulators. The editor has some weird bugs, but if you dont want to configure giant editors like EMACS to do what you want, then this is what you want.

Those of you coding the legendary 8bit machine Commodore C64 will find this resource valuable. It is a disassembly dump of C64 Basic and Kernal Roms by Marko Mäkelä. It is fully commented and jmps are crosslinked for easy navigation.

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Hello!

Updating the html file everytime I uploaded something was a pain in the neck so I decided to switch to WordPress. Now I don’t know if it is personal but every little script crashes on me. So did WordPress.

After I ran through the easy setup procedure with gigantic fonts (Hey what’s it with those fonts? This is not a kiosk for chrissake!) I logged in. And instead of my new, slick wp system what I saw was a whole page of an error message. It went like this:

[Data too long for column ‘option_value’ at row 1]
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = …

And following was a huge query. The weird thing is data type of ‘option_value’ column is longtext, which should theoretically be enough for an encyclopedia. I googled and found this bug report on WP website which didn’t even suggest a solution.
Anyway with a little research I learned all this fuss was about showing me news I didn’t need about WordPress, on my dashboard page. I installed the Dashboard Options Plugin which lets me turn off that feature. Does the trick.

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