All software is open source, freely available, and easily configured to compile and download to the P2. The software required includes Microsoft VSC, Total Spectrum Software’s FlexProp (an IDE package which includes the FlexSpin compiler that runs on Mac, Linux and RaspPi), and the Spin2 extension from the VSC Marketplace from Stephen Moraco’s Iron Sheep Software.
VSC and the Spin2 extensions provide syntax highlighting, automatic updates, and command-line downloads to the P2 - and the simplicity and familiarity of a very popular and stable programming environment. The process for Mac, RaspPi, and Linux operating systems is similar and not fully detailed in this post – but the differences are shown on Stephen Moraco’s GitHub (link at bottom). This Quick Byte details the setup to configure three open source software tools to program the Propeller 2 (the P2, or P2X8C4M64P) on Windows under Visual Studio Code (VSC).
