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AI-Assisted 6502 Assembly: Porting Super Star Trek to the Commodore 64
Examine the practical application of large language models in porting a classic game to 6502 assembly for the Commodore 64, detailing challenges and optimizations in retro development.
There are a lot of Super Star Trek clones out for the Commodore 64. It remains one of my all time favorites but usually suffers from being slow because of the text rendering in 40 columns. It was originally an 80 column game. I've spent the summer with the newly released Claude Code agent creating a fast rendering, complete port of the 1978 version of the game by creating custom charsets, optimizing 6502 assembly and modernizing the interface. I'll show the process and review lessons learned in using LLMs for retro computer development.