Deckard <boutillon@free.fr> wrote:
I own few disks full of sources written with LISA 2.5B (saved as BIN
files with special bytes instead of the normal 6502 mnemonics, etc...)
I would like to convert them to a txt format (to use with Merlin pro,
DOS 3.3 version).
I tried the LISA "WRITE" cmd but it failed (created empty txt files).
Do you know if there is a tool which allow to convert such sources
automatically?
CiderPress can convert the three known LISA formats (2.x, 3.x, 4.x/5.x)
to text files. You will have to convert the text files to your assembler
of choice. Besides the text formatting, there are differences in the
psuedo-opcodes for macros, conditional assembly, chunks of data, etc.
Convert the disks to disk images on a Windows machine. Select the files,
click on Extract, select "Configure for easy access in Windows". It will
extract all selected files into plain text. You *might* just need to
add them back to a DOS disk -- CiderPress will do the DOS text conversion --
but I don't know if the DOS Merlin editor will handle plain text files
with multiple spaces between fields. (Is there an "import text file"
sort of option in that?)