Re: Some questions about Apple IIc and Assembly Programming

[rtk <oneelkruns@hotmail.com>]

On Mar 20, 9:18 pm, tomatos <detachment2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys, I'm a freshmen computer science student who's interested in
> learning assembly on the apple iic and I was hoping that someone could
> help me get started.

Wonderful!  Learning from the bare metal up is something that seems to
be sorely lacking these days.

The advice you've already received is good but I'd go with what
Michael said:  use Merlin and use the real hardware.

If you are having trouble getting actual floppies with Merlin for your
IIc send me an email with your address and I'll mail you some along
with basic notes on using Merlin.  It is straightforward, an old-
fashioned line editor.

Again, echoing Michael, if you have the real hardware, why use an
emulator?  (Says Ron who to this day still uses an Apple IIgs at work,
though primarily only as a terminal to a Linux box for CUDA
development)

The 6502 is a very simple processor and easy to learn.  If you find
you like the low-level stuff, it might be interesting for you to next
move on to something like the simple PIC microcontrollers (10F
series), they use an even simpler instruction set.

Finally, this document might be helpful to you as well:

http://www.geocities.com/oneelkruns/asm1step.html

Good luck and stick with it!  You won't get this in your Java book!

Ron