Now that I have my cc65 fork really fleshed out, I had whip up a version of snakes for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-rPlhPPvs

https://github.com/ChaseHQ/DANI-I-Snakes

i would still very much recommend putting everything related to a project in a single repository, for the same reasons as mentioned before.

but besdies that, that's a pretty neat looking clone. as an extra challenge, try to have the body of the snake smaller than 1 whole tile. so that when the snake is next to itself the body parts don't blend together.

I get what you're saying but they truly are separate projects. CC65 is a fork so it has to stand on it's own so I can pull off the main for updates. As for the rest I personally just prefer (especially when im at work) pulling one project, working on it and pushing and not taking the entire tree with me. I understand your position but I think for my workstyle keeping it separate helps me organize as well as be productive.

hmm, that is honestly the first time i've heard of a worksytle like that. especially with github which is designed to allow for incremental updates to repos. oh well whatever works i guess.
just note that it will likely only be convenient to you and not to others who might want to follow the project.

also, sorry but i'm still a bit confused, what exactly do you need a fork of cc65 for? AFAIK you usually fork projects to modify their source code, but in this case you just want a custom target for it. so why not just download the pre-compiled binaries and follow their official tutorial? https://cc65.github.io/doc/customizing.html
i did the same with my own 65c02 SBC, i got a folder for cc65 programs that also contains a config folder with the crt0.s file, C standard library, and the .cfg file for my hardware. all according to that page.

With a fork and their already built Makefiles its incredibly easy to add your own target. Dave Plummer did something similar with his KIM-I. Having all the source at hand in say VSCode gives you a very nice environment for working off already working source as well.

oh i see.
Make is a pain to get working on Windows, so using the pre-compiled binaries was more convenient for me.

anyways my little extra challange for your snake program still stands if you want to try it.

Microsoft's NMake is fairly easy to set up for Windows. It's not as powerful or versatile as Make, but it gets the job done for me.

I've been running VSCode under WSL 2 - It uses Linux as the backend to compile the code, so Make is easily and readily available. - You could also just install Cygwin and it should work.