The Retro Hour Commodore 64 Episode Guide is a C64 program written in C for the Commodore 64 using the CC65 cross compiler. This is just another fun side project to learn more about the C64 and CC65.
The Retro Hour Commodore 64 Episode Guide is a C64 program written in C for the Commodore 64 using the CC65 cross compiler. This is just another fun side project to learn more about the C64 and CC65.
A pre-compiled PRG
-file can be found in the "Releases"-section on GitHub. You can run this file in any C64 emulator, even online; https://c64online.com/c64-online-emulator/.
PETSCII "art" splash screen.
The "EPISODES (F5)" page showing the search results for LGR
.
A GIF
that shows the different pages and features.
Episodes are defined in an array inside episodes.h
. The CreateEpisodesHeaderFile.linq
file is a LINQpad script to automatically generate episodes.h
from a "The Retro Hour" RSS feed.
The easiest way to set up a development environment is to use a Linux system, Ubuntu on WSL2 or a CC65 Docker container.
sudo apt install cc65
main.c
filecl65
cl65 main.c -o c64retrohour.prg