Re: Some questions about Apple IIc and Assembly Programming

[Jonno Downes <jonnosan@gmail.com>]

On Mar 21, 2:18 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. I've got an apple iic with green phosphor monitor
> in great condition, a copy of Apple II Assembly Language by Marvin L.
> De Jong., as well as DOS 3.3 and ProDOS 8 diskettes (thanks
> Syndicomm!)

Assuming your objective is to be able to code programs that *run on*
an Apple 2, rather than wanting to restrict yourself to *programming
on*, I'd strongly recommend use the ca65 cross assembler (which will
run on windows, mac, *nix, whatever) so you can use all the modern
editing facilities like copy & paste, search & replace, etc. ca65 is
part of the cc65 package - http://www.cc65.org/

I'd suggest you look at the adtpro project files - http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/
which as well as being the source for a tool you will find absolutely
essential if you are doing cross-development, will also show you what
a well structured ca65 project looks like (with Make files that not
only compile the source code and link to an executable binary, but
also go on to build a bootable disk image you can load into an
emulator or transfer to your real apple (via ADTPro) to execute).

p.s. - welcome - it's a fun journey!

Regards,

Jonno