While the Genny was\/is\/will be my favorite system, I was always interested by the white beauty : the PCEngine Duo R.<\/p>\n
Thanks to a friend, I bought one years ago, before eBay…so yes, at a fair price \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Let be honest, it was “somewhere” on my house since then, I only plugged it 1 or 2 times to check its status.<\/p>\n
Now that I develop on Genny, and spend half of my time fighting with the only 4 avalaible pals, my interest for the PCEngine increased over time, but not for the same reason.<\/p>\n
Last year, I wanted to stop Genny dev, because of some personal concern with the community….but I HAD to code, it’s a real dope.<\/p>\n
I looked at the SMS, the Lynx, the Neogeo Pocket, the GameBoy…and the PCEngine.<\/p>\n
I moved to SMS, because sverx’s\u00a0devkitSMS<\/a> was looking for some love and because I found it interesting to work on the origin of Genny.<\/p>\n A that time, I though only HuC<\/a> was available for the PCEngine and, no, sorry, coding with SmallC is not something I could do. NO.WAY!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earlier this year, I learnt about CC65<\/a>, a C compiler for 6502 processors, used for NES, Lynx, Atari, Apple2 and some others.<\/p>\n HuC6280, the PCEngine’s CPU, is a customized 65SC02 so yes, CC65 could be used to code game on PCEngine using the C language or ASM.<\/p>\n In fact, the PCengine is one of CC65’s target so…great !!!!<\/p>\n Well….yes, but no so great. PCEngine support was made to be able to build contiki<\/a> on PCEngine and, while the works done is awesome, it’s not usable as-is for game development.<\/p>\n