11-23-2003, 11:56 PM
HuC is a C compiler for the TurboGrafx 16 console (or PC Engine as known in many countries). Zeograd also produces the Hu-Go! PC Engine emulator. The PC Engine is sorta like an NES on steroids. Magic Kit, the assembler used for HuC, is a cross-assembler which supports assembly for both the PC Engine and the NES. Both old machines used the same core CPU (the 6502, the same CPU found in machines like the VIC-20, and then later a modified 6502 called a 6510, found in the Commodore 64, which featured extra I/O ports and some other things I don't really remember at the moment), except the PC Engine used a later revision called the 6280 which had additional memory mapping circuits (and extra commands to manipulate them). Programming for the TG16, as with most old consoles, is a true challenge. Your best efforts end up looking like child's play next to the commercial releases that came out even 10 years ago. Makes you wonder just how good those commercial developers were...and erases any doubt of why they are professionals and we're not 
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