what software are you using? late 2017 edition

[Oziphantom]

100% you can, I'm working with 2 people who did it back in the day. However you can't single step and put break points on actual c64 like you can in VICE or see the internal register states of the VIC and CIAs etc send snapshots that show bugs so my PM can send me a snapshot and say "here the sprites are stuffed up" etc

[Sogona]

Actually I tired [FamiTracker] but didn't like it very much, the only advantage is that making "instruments" is simple and great, but making music is awful.

What do you use then? I don't know of any chiptune-oriented programs that aren't tracker-based

If you like LilyPond, PPMCK, or other MML tools, you'll love Pently. The score is written in an MML-like language that looks like this, though ft2pently is also available.

Yeah I'll try it out; it's just that I already added my own music engine to my game. It's pretty barebones but it's taken care of anything I've needed so far. Usually I start messing around on a keyboard, and once I got a melody I like I'll put it into famitracker and go from there. Then once the song's all done to my liking I'll type it into the source as raw .db's.

[zzo38]

Sometimes I wonder if the people here are a little bit genius, or a little bit mad.

I think that, if you are a little bit genius then you may also be a little bit mad, therefore, probably, it is both, I think.

[jayminer]

Sometimes I wonder if the people here are a little bit genius, or a little bit mad.

I think that, if you are a little bit genius then you may also be a little bit mad, therefore, probably, it is both, I think.

I actually used my Amiga 4000 quite a bit when developing Driar. All the graphics are made in Brilliance and then "transferred" by hand to NES Screen Tool. And I did the level editor in AMOS so all the levels are Amiga-done!

[krzysiobal]

Windows XP SP3, Notepad++, Irfan View, Paint Shop Pro 7, Winamp, Total Commander, Quartus 13/Xilinx Ise, Firefox 47 (I spend one week to make this shit run I.264 videos in youtube), ca65, FCEUX, WinHex, TL866 Programmer+MiniPro

+A lot of my own programs for narrow purpose, like:
*KrzysioPCB for reverse engineering PCB:


*KrzysioKazzo for reading/testing/programming cartridges:


*KrzysioProgrammer for reading EPROMs/MaskRoms with unusual pinout (like 1Mbit in DIP32)


*KrzysioTester for testing integrated circuits,


*KrzysioPalReader for reading PAL chips