Drag and drop programs to Emulator

Travis Bryant moore · Post by **Travis Bryant moore** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:11 am

I was surprised that the emulator worked on my linux mint as soon as I unzipped it so thanks for that. But this may have been before but why can't I drag and drop programs onto the X16 emulator? The idea was to take existing programs or basic text and paste and debug or convert them over to CX16. Though I may not know what the heck I am doing. I even tried to do rust on CX16.

kelli217 · Post by **kelli217** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:47 pm

Copy and paste works. Just use Ctrl-V and whatever's on your clipboard will be pasted in. (At least, that's how it works in Windows.)

Daedalus · Post by **Daedalus** » Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:46 am

Hola fellow Linux Mint user!

First, yes... you can copy and paste a BASIC program into the READY prompt, but it needs to all be UPPER CASE, because that's how Commodore Basic rides.

Myself, I use the terminal to compile code using ca65 (use "apt install cc65" to install the entire suite of 5602 cross compiler tools.) That gets you the assembler, the C compiler, and the linker. I use the assembler and write code in assembly. Assembly can be daunting, but if you stick with it it gets easier. Matt Heffernan at Slithy Games has a great tutorial series on Commander X-16 programming in assembly on you-tube at

I strongly recommend Matt's series, It's really good.