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The MEGA65 remains a hot topic. The real hardware, the emulation via XEmu (or someday maybe a MiSTer core) offer everything that many expected from Commodore in the 80s, but never got due to the missing release of the C65.

Today the community has quite a few interesting software titles to offer, but some people are less interested in gaming and more in programming the machine. And there are a few options.

One of the currently most interesting is Rust!

Sounds funny? (I mean, not funny-funny, but crazy-funny?) It actually is not. Because since the release of LLVM-MOS, which we spoke about in Issue #39, it's absolutely realistic. And interesting. And usable.

Mikael Lund has given himself over to the adventure, and knitted together a suitable Rust Playground Project for the MEGA65.

The whole thing is more a StarterKit than anything completely finished. But it opens a more than interesting option for programming the machine.

Fancy something rusty? Have fun.