Re: Need Advice on 8bit LISA assembler

[as283@freenet.buffalo.edu (Steven F. Eisenberg)]

 teke@livy.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Jeff W. Schroeder) writes:
 
 >I have seen the Lisa Assembler on grind.isca.uiowa.edu, but
 >there is no documentation.  Could someone point me in the
 >right direction here.
 
I'm in the same position as Jeff Schroeder, being a
mini-assembler user who has downloaded the 8-bit LISA
assembler but has not yet gotten comfortable with LISA.  I
haven't really studied the available documentation yet, but I
do have some.
 
First of all, there's documentation for updated features (I
believe the changes are from version 2.6 to version 3.4 or so)
available on-line in the same directory as LISA itself.  You
can get this by ftp from Cal Tech, but at the time I
downloaded something was wrong with the archive.  So I asked
one of the GENIE sysops to get it onto GENIE's Apple II
Programmer's library, and he did.  Incidently, I think that
GENIE has been having a free introductory offer lately.
 
Also, at least 4 books were published on 8 bit LISA in the
1980s.  The ones I have are "Using 6502 Assembly Language:
How Anyone Can Program the Apple II" by Randy Hyde and "Apple
Assembly Language with LazarWare Software"  by W. Douglas
Maurer.  Both books more or less assume you have the original
LISA manuals, but the Maurer book seems to me much closer to
having all the information you need to use LISA without the
original manuals.  As for locating other LISA books, I know
that some of them were mentioned in LazarWare magazine
advertisements of the early-mid 1980's.  As for where to get
any of these books, they may be on rare occasion available on
comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.  Also, any public or university
library should be able to get them on interlibrary loan.
 
Advice from anyone who at one time used LISA will be
appreciated.
 
                        Steve Eisenberg
                        Wynnewood, PA