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Classic Development Tools

Classic Development Tools for retro systems that have stood the test of time and are still recommended to aid development.

Modern Development Tools

SWIFT Integrated Development Environment by Steve O'Leary

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/swift
Target Systems: Windows
Licence: Freeware
Developed in: Pascal (DELPHI)
SWIFT is an IDE, with built-in code editor, designed to aid development of software for 8-bit Acorn microcomputers. Projects can make use of multiple third party cross assemblers such as the free Python assembler, P65, as well as multiple emulators. SWIFT provides Error Throwback highlighting in offending source code, One-Click Testing and One-Click Source Assembly with the option of writing the assembled code direct to a DFS disk image.
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BeebAsm Portable 6502 Assembler by Rich Talbot-Watkins

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/beebasm
Target Systems: Windows, RISC OS, Mac OSX, Linux
Licence: GNU GPLv3 license
Developed in: C++
BeebAsm is a portable 6502 assembler designed specially for developing assembler programs for the BBC Micro. It uses syntax reminiscent of BBC BASIC's built-in assembler, and is able to output its object code directly into emulator-ready DFS disc images.
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BeebSpriter BBC Sprite Designer by Rich Talbot-Watkins

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/beebspriter
Target Systems: Windows (.NET) / Mac OS X, Linux (Mono)
Licence: GNU GPLv3 license
Developed in: C#
BeebSpriter is a application for creating BBC sprites in all the available graphics modes. There are a large number of supported binary export formats, a comprehensive editor (with pixel plotting, flood fill, cut/copy/paste, and selected area reflection), a tool for previewing animation sequences, the ability to mix sprites of various sizes within one sprite sheet, and an option to auto-generate an assembler source file which defines symbols representing the addresses and sizes of the exported sprites.
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BBC Micro Image Converter by Francis G. Loch

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/image2bbc
Target Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and possibly Amiga in the future if there is enough interest
Licence: Freeware
Developed in: PureBasic
This tool performs the conversion of BBC Micro screen dumps to BMP, etc. and vice versa, converting modern images into a BBC Micro compatible format. It will also include Mode 7 (teletext) converter functionality in the future.
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BBC Sprite Designer by Francis G. Loch

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/bbcspritedesigner
Target Systems: Windows and Mac OS X
Licence: Freeware
Developed in: PureBasic
A tool to create and edit animated and non-animated sprites, including import image (BMP, JPG, PNG, etc.) function. Features include:

• Set size and mode of sprite
• Very basic drawing facilities which allows you to paint pixels
• Add/delete frames (for animated sprites)

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Beacon (BEeb Audio CONverter) - WAV2BBC tool by Francis G. Loch

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/beacon
Target Systems: Windows
Licence: Freeware
Developed in: PureBasic
A utility to convert sound samples for playback on a BBC Micro.
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