rf@wu1.UUCP (11/27/84)
Some time ago, I posted a request for references to a Commodore
assemblers. Here's a summary of replies. Thank you all.
"Gremlins don't exist." Randolph Fritz
UUCPnet: {ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!wu1!rf
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Bill Buie (burl!wjb) and Robert Scott Lenoil (mit-eddie!lenoil)
referred me to MAE. Bill sent a complete ad. for the product.
I'll include some points of it.
MAE (Macro Assembler and Editor) - $60
EASTERN HOUSE SOFTWARE
3239 Linda Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
(919)924-2889
(919)748-8446
A complete software development system including a text editor,
assembler, linking loader, debugger, and text formatter. The
package is available for Commodore, Atari, and Apple.
Noteworthy features include:
ASSEMBLER:
- 31 character labels
- expressions
- extensive macro processor
DEBUGGER:
- knows 6502 opcodes
- does arithmetic
- has disassembler
- the advt. does not state that the debugger has trace
features. Nonetheless, it may.
TEXT FORMATTER:
- all the usual sorts of things (justification, etc.)
- footnoting
- "printing of text in shapes", that is, arbitrary text
fitting. This would be particularly useful for inset
illustrations.
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V. Hoang (ihnp4!dwx3bs!vqh), Robert Scott Lenoil (mit-eddie!
lenoil), Kevin Hoskins (nsc!voder!kev), Jack Weintraub (bunker!
jhw), and Paul H. Moritz (decvax!grendel!paul) notified me that
Commodore offers an assembler ($20). Kevin Hoskins writes that
the Commodore assembler has undocumented features.
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Some anonymous person at watmath!looking!brad wrote me of his
own PAL assembler. This is available from Pro-Line Software of
Mississauga Ontario (416) 273-6350 ($50). PAL operates in the
BASIC environment, using BASIC's text editor. It includes an
assembler and linker. The assembler works both on programs in
main memory and programs on disk. When operating in main
memory, it is said to be quite fast. The generated code can be
called from BASIC.
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V. Hoang (ihnp4!dwx3bS!vqh) wrote of EA, a public domain
editor-assembler.
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Rick Jansen (mcvax!sara70!rick) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
writes of an unnamed tape assembler available from W.J. Vermin,
Lindelaan 11, 2351 NV Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, for fl. 60
(Netherlander currency).
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