Re: 65816 Assembler?

[Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr>]

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,
Benoît