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Those who regularly find joy and satisfaction in creating machine code for the 65XX processor family are likely familiar with xa65.

Andre Fachat's open-source 6502 cross assembler is among the best of the best for skillfully stringing together colorful bytes in the memory of an 8-bit powerhouse.

Cameron Kaiser, at home at www.floodgap.com/, is the current maintainer of xa, and has recently released Version 2.4.0. The list of new features is quite long, and those using any UNIX-like operating system, still working with a version 2.3.x, and eager to directly face the deprecation warnings of the 2.3 version, will find themselves well-positioned with version 2.4.0.

But seriously, this piece of software is among the finest for cross-assembling for MOS6502 descendants, and dxa, a disassembler belonging to the project, has been available for some time now as well.

Enjoy the update.