> There is no assembler and no text editor, so the only development possibility other than BASIC is to implement directly in machine code. Could have developed

> There is no assembler and no text editor, so the only development possibility other than BASIC is to implement directly in machine code. Could have developed off machine then ported over to the ][ lots of resources here: http://6502.org/ http://6502.org/ like XA65: http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/xa/ http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/xa/ Much 8 bit development nowadays (and there still is a lot) is cross-platform. plus many many apple ][ emulators for debugging... even some running via browser.