Resources

Repositories

All sources for steckOS, BIOS, firmware, decoder and also schematics and layouts can be found in our github repositories:

All software (steckOS, BIOS, libraries, tools, games, stuff): https://github.com/Steckschwein/code

Hardware (Schematics, PCB Layouts, Firmware): https://github.com/Steckschwein/hardware

Steckschwein Emulator: https://github.com/Steckschwein/steckschwein-emulator

Tools

We almost exclusively use Open Source-Software to design and code for the Steckschwein.

  • cc65 Extensive suite of cross development tools for almost every 6502 based platform. We mostly use ca65 because of the linker. Also, we have a few tools written in C.
  • KiCad The best OSS EDA suite. We use it for all things hardware.
  • Acme Very nice 65xx crossassembler for almost every platform. We used ACME in the beginning, but moved on to ca65 from the cc65 suite. We still use it for quick-and dirty stuff.
  • GALasm Our GAL-based address decoding logic and our wait state generator logic are defined using GALasm, which is an ancient tool, but still very useful.
  • Xilinx ISE Xilinx ISE design suite to program the XC9572. The only non OSS development tool we use.
  • py65mon We use it’s 6502-emulator/simulator for automated testing using unit tests.