Re: Looking for Lisa (the Assembler, not the Simpson)

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <55tmv6$db8@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Z5D31@ttacs3.ttu.edu (Captain Harlock)
writes:
>I came across another box of IIgs disks at a garage sale. Nothing really major
>except one disk had tons and tons of source for something called "Lisa."
>Apparently this is some kind of assembler or compiler for the GS, and I'd be
>interested in getting a copy of it (if it's PD or shareware) so I can take a
>look at some of this code.
>
>Any ideas?

That depends.  Are the Lisa source code files on DOS 3.3 disks or ProDOS
disks?

The Lisa assembler was released as freeware starting with version 3.something-
or-other.  This version runs under ProDOS...any Lisa source files that you
find on a DOS 3.3 disk were probably for Lisa version 2.5 or earlier, which
runs under DOS 3.3, and which I've never seen available except on "pirate"
FTP sites.

Lisa version 3.x can be found on apple2.caltech.edu (pub/apple2/8bit/dev/lisa)
and ground.isca.uiowa.edu (I can't tell you the path since ground isn't
responding at the moment).

Lisa versions 4.x and 5.x were also released as freeware.  They're worth
getting if you can find them...version 4.x fixes numerous bugs in version
3.x, and can make OMF files (under ProDOS 8!), and version 5.x is an
almost-complete native IIGS assembler that runs under GS/OS.
Unfortunately, they're not widely available--the FTP site where they used
to be distributed from disappeared a few years ago.  A somewhat out-of-date
copy of version 5.x can be found on Charles Turley's WWW site
(http://wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/gsezine/GS.WorldView/*BUNKERWARES/), and in the
1WSW directory on ground.isca.uiowa.edu.

               - Neil Parker
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