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With 68k you can do a lot with a small number of instructions. You only really need the more obscure ones when you start optimizing.
The biggest pain is the toolset itself. WinUAE helps a lot with the build-in debugger, even if it's not the most friendly. But stuff like cross-development with a source level debugger doesn't exist.
Also it's easy to crash the machine and there are no exceptions when you have a bad pointer, so you have to get good at debugging stuff with minimal help.
Not even a decent modern C compiler... So you have to struggle at first.
Some kind of cross development system would be very helpful I think. I saw one for the Megadrive (also 68k based) which was kinda like an Action Replay but connected to a PC, so you could single step and debug at source level and see the results in real-time.
Might be possible with an A500, or with WinUAE.
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