Re: LISA assembler

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Deckard <boutillon@free.fr> wrote:
> I own few disks full of sources written with LISA 2.5B (saved as BIN
> files with special bytes instead of the normal 6502 mnemonics, etc...)
> I would like to convert them to a txt format (to use with Merlin pro,
> DOS 3.3 version).
> I tried the LISA "WRITE" cmd but it failed (created empty txt files).
> 
> Do you know if there is a tool which allow to convert such sources
> automatically?

CiderPress can convert the three known LISA formats (2.x, 3.x, 4.x/5.x)
to text files.  You will have to convert the text files to your assembler
of choice.  Besides the text formatting, there are differences in the
psuedo-opcodes for macros, conditional assembly, chunks of data, etc.

Convert the disks to disk images on a Windows machine.  Select the files,
click on Extract, select "Configure for easy access in Windows".  It will
extract all selected files into plain text.  You *might* just need to
add them back to a DOS disk -- CiderPress will do the DOS text conversion --
but I don't know if the DOS Merlin editor will handle plain text files
with multiple spaces between fields.  (Is there an "import text file"
sort of option in that?)

FWIW, I had similar problems with the LISA 2.5 "WRITE" command.  The 5.x
editor wasn't exactly intuitive either, and none of the later versions
can read files from the earlier versions.

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