Another lurker here...
I've been using several of the ATmega series chips for the last year or so since I decided to abandon my retirement and get back into hardware and software design to save my brain from fading away. So far it's working :-)
I have spent 30-odd years working in assembler and C with 8080's and 68000's, through windows programming which I disliked, back to 'pure' C coding embedded micros and avr-gcc.
I can't say I ever got the hang of AVR Studio. I don't like the way it gets in my way talking directly to the hardware.
My platform of choice these days is KDevelop on Debian Linux (KDE desktop). KDevelop is relatively easy to configure to use avr-gcc compiler and avrdude programmer. With not too much work a makefile can be created which allows one- button compile and download functionality. KDevelop has a fairly easy project management system and smart code editor with all the handy stuff like syntax highlighting and code completion. Both the IDE and compiler toolchain are included as Debian installer packages.
When working on a Mac laptop I use Eclipse with the same toolchain, but I find Eclipse much harder to customise to my liking. Unfortunately the current Eclipse website is incomprehensible and almost impossible to navigate if all you want is to find out about the IDE.
http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/
http://kdevelop.org/
http://www.eclipse.org/
Steve
On 03/05/14 02:34, Mike Bronosky wrote: