Re:C64 Power C Tutorial
by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @03:43PM
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The 6502 only has 66 extremely simple instructions, and it's slow enough C is a disadvantage and you would need to learn 6502 assembly to know how to write good C code anyway, so I don't see the point in avoiding it. I started writing a Famicom game for the fun of it, and the ISA is very easy to pick up because of it's so tiny and uncomplicated.
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Yes. But OP will learn (hopefully) and that's the fun of it.
Anyway, for the C64 many of your "APIs" -- especially for games -- are accessed by peeking and poking memory-mapped locations, careful usage of the zero-page, etc. C doesn't help you with that stuff but assembly loves it.
If you aren't in there counting cycles you are leaving so much on the table, and there just isn't that much table!