hall@noscvax.UUCP (Robert R. Hall) (11/08/84)
For assembly language programing, on the Commodore 64, I purchased MERLIN 64 (macro assembler) for $50. As your programing skill increases, you will find that merlin has the power to meet your needs as you develop into a professional. It features include labels, pseudo-opcodes, decimal, hex and binary number systems, macros with local variables and conditional assemble. It is written in machine language so it has the speed. It is a nicely intergrated package of 5 modules (executive, editor, assembler, symbol table generator and monitor). With this intergration one can quickly transfer between the editor and assembler or monitor to conveniently make correction and then test them out. It also has a unique utility 'SOURCEROR', which is a dis-assembler that takes binary object code such as that produce by Computes Gazette machine language loader 'MLX' and quickly and easily create source code for editing. For system requirements it does need a disk drive. The weak link appears to be the monitor which has limited but adequate features when compared to MICROMON