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Re:C64 Power C Tutorial by leggomylibro on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:45PM (#20159360)
The MSP430 is a fun way to get back to that sort of simplicity with a fairly modern chip; it's a 16-bit processor with a focus on power efficiency. They've got a GCC toolchain and a port of the Processing IDE ('Arduino') called Energia:

https://energia.nu/

Also, some of the newer ones have small amounts of nonvolatile FRAM instead of separate SRAM and Flash banks.

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Re:C64 Power C Tutorial by Koshkin on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @07:06PM (#20160325)
... and it is a lot more fun when the toolchain runs on the target itself. With microcontrollers it's hardly possible (but see RetroBSD), but not needing a workstation to service an otherwise self-contained little machine somehow feels special.
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