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From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: need info on Apple assemblers/compilers
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Date: 9 Dec 89 06:59:48 GMT
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>Hi. I need some information on assemblers or compilers for the Apple IIe. 
>... I've heard about Merlin and Orca, but can find very
>little about them 
>
>Wayne Carson

The Merlin system I used with my //e was very nice.  I first bought the
program when Roger Wagner was still Southwestern Data Systems (I think
that was the name), and later got Merlin Pro.

Merlin Pro used a nice full-screen editor, had a bunch of macros (like
printing a row of ****s for commenting), was fast, didn't take up too
much memory, plus it came with a disassembler.  I'm not sure if Merlin
Pro did, but the original Merlin also generated a commented listing of
Applesoft BASIC ROM.

I haven't done much with assembly language recently, so I don't know
how the newer versions of Merlin stack up against ORCA.  MicroSPARC
(Nibble Magazine) may still sell their assembler package, and Call
-APPLE had a Big Mac assembler which later became Merlin.

Incidentally, Merlin is written by Glen Bredon, who also wrote
ProSEL which you hear about frequently on USENET.



Howard C. Huang
huang@husc4.harvard.edu