READYCode's settings live in one place: Preferences > Settings..., organized as a tree of categories on the left of the Settings window. This page walks through what each category controls.
- Restore previous session - whether previously open tabs (and which ones were in Hex Editor mode) are reopened automatically the next time you launch READYCode.
- Theme - Light, Dark, or a Commodore-64-palette theme, switchable at any time without restarting.
- Editor font size - adjustable from 6 to 72, shared by the BASIC/Assembly editor, the Disassembler, and the Hex Editor.
- Line number zero-padding - keeps line numbers a consistent width.
- Auto-number lines - automatically inserts the next line number when you press Enter, plus the increment to use.
- Column guide - a vertical guide marking a chosen column in BASIC tabs, useful for keeping lines within a target width (40 for the C64, 22 for the VIC-20).
- Linting - toggles the inline diagnostics that flag duplicate line numbers, bad
GOTO/GOSUBtargets, unmatchedNEXT, and unterminated strings. - Code folding - toggles the ability to collapse
REMblocks andFOR/NEXTloops in a BASIC tab.
- Minify code when transferring to/running on the C64U - automatically applies Minify's transformations to a copy of your program before sending it to the C64 Ultimate, leaving your working copy untouched. The same six options available in the Minify dialog are configured here for this automatic pass.
- Mnemonic indent column - column mnemonics (
LDA,STA,JMP, etc.) and.bytelines are indented to, in the Disassembler's output and via Auto-indent below. - Comment alignment column - column inline
;comments are aligned to, in the Disassembler's output and via Auto-indent below. - Column guide - a vertical guide marking a chosen column in assembly tabs, independent of BASIC's own column guide setting.
- Auto-indent - when enabled, pressing Enter normalizes the line you're leaving: a bare mnemonic line (not preceded by a label) is indented to the Mnemonic indent column and its mnemonic is upper-cased, and the new line is indented to match; any line with an inline
;comment has that comment realigned to the Comment alignment column, regardless of whether it's a mnemonic, label, or directive line. A whole-line comment, a label-only line (e.g.loop:), or a blank line is left untouched.
- Code folding - toggles the ability to collapse runs of consecutive full-line
;comments in an assembly tab, independent of BASIC's own code folding setting.
- Output - whether assembled code is packaged as a runnable program with an auto-generated BASIC loader stub ("Auto"), or as a standalone
.prgwith no loader ("Standalone"). Applies whenever a tab is transferred or run on the C64 Ultimate or VICE, and to the Code Statistics and Symbol Explorer's assembled-byte/address figures. An explicit.orgdirective in the source always wins over this setting. - Default origin address - the memory address standalone output starts at (e.g.
$C000), used when the source has no.orgdirective of its own.
- Show C64U Menu - hides the C64U menu entirely if you do not use one.
- C64U REST API base URL - the address of your C64 Ultimate on your local network.
- Show VICE Menu - hides the VICE menu entirely if you do not use it.
- Bring VICE to the foreground - automatically switches to the VICE window whenever you load or run a program.
- Emulator executable path - the location of your VICE executable (for example
x64sc.exe), with a Browse button to locate it. - Binary monitor host and port - where READYCode connects to control VICE, defaulting to
127.0.0.1:6502.
See Transferring to Hardware and Emulators for what these two integrations actually do.
Beyond the settings above, READYCode also quietly remembers window position and size, panel widths and open/closed state, which reference panel tab was last active, the last folder used in Open/Save dialogs, and up to ten recently opened files, none of which require a Preferences entry of their own.