Cross development with real hardware
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:51 pm
Just wondering what the options for developing on a PC and testing on a real Vic are these days. It appears VICE doesn't emulate everything accurately and so I would like to be able have a similar development experience but using real hardware.
I plan on using a video capture device to show my real VIC in a window and have already ordered an s-video plug and play kit to make the output acceptable.
I'm thinking about how to have a rapid compile/test cycle similar to CA65 & VICE as shuffling SD cards between the computers isn't ideal.
What options are available today?
[What would be a neat project if anyone with hardware skills were so inclined would be a special debug cartridge with an ESP82666 on board that could act as a remote debug client from the PC. Listening on a specific tcp/ip port, when compilation was finished the binary would be sent over Wifi and written directly into the cartridge RAM before automatically resetting the VIC to auto start at a specific address (all sub second).]
I plan on using a video capture device to show my real VIC in a window and have already ordered an s-video plug and play kit to make the output acceptable.
I'm thinking about how to have a rapid compile/test cycle similar to CA65 & VICE as shuffling SD cards between the computers isn't ideal.
What options are available today?
[What would be a neat project if anyone with hardware skills were so inclined would be a special debug cartridge with an ESP82666 on board that could act as a remote debug client from the PC. Listening on a specific tcp/ip port, when compilation was finished the binary would be sent over Wifi and written directly into the cartridge RAM before automatically resetting the VIC to auto start at a specific address (all sub second).]