Re: Some questions about Apple IIc and Assembly Programming

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

tomatos wrote:
> Hey guys, I'm a freshmen computer science student who's interested in
> learning assembly on the apple iic and I was hoping that someone could
> help me get started. I've got an apple iic with green phosphor monitor
> in great condition, a copy of Apple II Assembly Language by Marvin L.
> De Jong., as well as DOS 3.3 and ProDOS 8 diskettes (thanks
> Syndicomm!)
>
> Unfortunately the book doesn't cover the basics of how to create an
> assembly file or run it through an assembler, and I am otherwise
> lacking in documentation. How do I go about doing this? I can CREATE a
> file, but can't figure out how to begin editing it. Also: I have the
> original 255 ROM and thus the monitor does not include the mini-
> assembler; does DOS 3.3 or ProDOS have an assembler built in? If not,
> how can I get one?
>
> Any help you can give me is _greatly_ appreciated! It is hard to learn
> when you must load all programs directly into memory via the monitor
> in machine code.

What you're missing is an assembler and its manual.

An excellent one in wide use in the Apple II community is Merlin.
It and its documentation have been released as freeware, and it
is available on the web:

>http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/programming/assembler/merlin/ 


-michael

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