Re: 65816 Assembler?

["Jayson Smith" <ihatespamratguynospamplease@insightbb.spamsucks.com>]

Hi,

That's great. Where can I get Merlin?
Thanks.

"Benoit0123" <bgilon@free.fr> wrote in message 
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> Jayson Smith wrote:
>> Stupid question time.
>>
>> It looks like I may be needing to assemble some machine language routines
>> for various purposes. The environment with which I'm most familiar is SC
>> Macro Assembler running under DOS 3.3. This program is very
>> speech-friendly
>>
>> with the Echo synthesizer. However, I assume it was never updated to work
>> with the 65816. So what are people using, either under DOS 3.3 or ProDos
>> (not GS/OS), for an assembler?
>> Thanks.
>>
> Merlin 8 2.47 (or 2.48) for DOS 3.3 from RWP by Glen Bredon can assemble
> most 65816 instructions natively and others (i.e. using extra addressing
> modes) by using macros.
> However, I don't think that it is as "speech friendly" as the SC macro
> assembler, albeit this should not be impossible to write "a print driver" 
> to
> output code to a speech synthesizer instead of to a printer peripheral 
> card.
> As Merlin and other products from Glen Bredon are now open source, every 
> one
> is granted the right to include Merlin in his own disk. That's what I do
> with the utility programs I've authored where source disk archives also
> include a working Merlin environment (either 2.47 or 2.48 for DOS 3.3, and
> 2.58 for ProDOS 8).
>
> HTHATS,
> Beno�t
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