Re: Best ASM Programming book for Apple

[Scarlet Otter <SecretaryBird@SoftHome.net>]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:01:33 -0500, Mookie Harrington
<ch003i@mail.rochester.edu> wrote:

>Hello all!
>
>I was interested in recommendations for the best assembly programming book
>for the Apple ][ (particuarly //e).  I have two in my collection, one
>which is specifically addresses to turning Pascal programs into Assembly,
>and one which is entitled something like "Apple Machine Code" (red book,
>spiral binding).  I'm taking a class on assembly right now at school, and

I highly recommend Compute!'s Apple II Machine Language for Beginners.
I think that's one of the best books ever for learning Assembly on an
A2; one of the few  that actually does not assume that the reader is
already familiar with another programming language.  It also features
a nice little assembler called LADS (Labelled Assembly Development
System) that you can type in.

>Also, I know that the //e allows you to enter some sort of Machine Code
>assembler with the "!" command.  Is that so you can type in ASM commands
>directly, instead of having to use the 00-FF codes?

If you are running ProDOS, you can write your source code with a word
processor (save as a plain ASCII file), and then from within the Mini
Assembler you can exec it into memory using the EXEC or - command.

-- Otter