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Re: Which assembler?

schmidtd wrote:

Kallikak wrote:


Hi,

I'm after a 6502 assembler for my Apples, and am hoping for some advice
on the best one to choose.  Although I realise it may not be possible
for all my requirements to be met, here is what would be ideal:


[...]


 3.  Can run on a 64K Apple II+ (though I have a 128K IIe and a IIc as
well)



Are you sure you want to assemble _on_ the Apple?  I personally find it
nicer to type on my familiar keyboard using modern editors (notepad is
my favorite ;-) and have a speedy CPU do the assemblage for me.

A couple of cross-assembly resources for you:
http://www.npsnet.com/danf/cbm/cross-development.html
http://www.wright.edu/~john.matthews/a2/cross.html

I found John Matthews' page especially helpful: I patched together a
workflow where I could take the output from my assembler of choice
(SB-Assembler, http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbp/sbasm/sbasm.htm) and put it on
a virtual floppy for testing on an emulator all in one shot.


I really enjoy the fun of developing on the Apple, as opposed to
cross-development.

And Merlin is my assembler of choice.  I generally use the ProDOS-
based Merlin 8, but there were a few DOS 3.3 versions before that
which are very similar.

-michael

Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

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