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Not to increase your scope, but have you considered making it work across other 6502 systems?

That was the original plan, but I veered off to focus on doing one system really well. I figured if some company wanted to sponsor a port, I could do it, but otherwise I'd direct people to other compilers like LLVM-MOS. I do think it's possible to port, but it's not trivial. Some areas - like the linker - are very specifically designed for the NES.

> if some company wanted to sponsor a port

I don’t think any company in 2023 is going to sponsor port of a 6502 compiler, unfortunately.

You may be mistaken. Retro hw/sw and gaming is a booming business at the moment. Plenty of crowdfunded projects that have been overfunded and then delivered, and even consumer goods being shipped worldwide in major department stores.

This is a really neat project. It reminds me a lot of Inform, in the sense that a full “modern” language was designed around creating an older-style of game.

There is an experimental LLVM backend for 6502!

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2022-05/slides/2022EuroLLVM-LLVM-MOS...

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