Re: Merlin assembler question

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

(Wolfgang Kemper) wrote:
> On Jun 18, 11:18 am, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On Jun 18, 7:26 am, "(Wolfgang Kemper)" <wkem...@ti.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hmm, it should do it.
> > > It also mentioned it in the Manual to go to the monitor and review
> > > the program.
> >
> > read the docs about where Merlin resides...
> >
> > you probably need to put it somewhere besides $300
>
>
> Here is an excerpt from the Merlin Manual:
>
> MERLIN resides in memory from $1000 (4096) to $2100 (8449) and BASIC
> has been moved up to $2101 (8449) to allow for this. MERLIN will not
> assemble in that part of memory ($1000-2100) and will warn as
> necessary. Beware when changing BASIC pointers and assembling near
> MERLIN.
>
>
> Just to test it I deleted the org statement:
>
>  BELL  EQU     $F8DD
>
>  START JSR     BELL    ;RING THE BELL
>
>  END   RTS
>
> Merlin will assemble it at $8000
> sure enough it is not htere when I look with the monitor.
> exiting Merlin, bload test.....call -151 .... 8000l
>
> Voila :
> 8000- 20 dd f8    jsr   $f8dd
> 8003- 60            rts
>
> I tried also org $4000 which should be save anyway but same result.
> If I call the monitor from the Merlin editor I do not see the
> assembled code.
>
> Merlin programmer:
>  is this the normal way to run the assembled programs?

It's the way I always use it.

I always assemble, then SAVE the object file, then BLOAD for
testing, since I don't want my program locations to be constrained
by where Merlin is.

Since I normally use an Applesoft program to call the object code,
it seems the natural way to do it.

-michael

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