Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Which assembler? Message-ID: <9105130455.AA26066@apple.com> Date: 13 May 91 04:50:37 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 On Mon, 13 May 91 01:31:57 GMT said: >Well, I guess I've had enough practice programming the GS from the >mini-assembler and now I'm thinking of getting a full-size assembler. >If I'm going to write GS specific applications, should I get the Merlin >8/16 or the Orca/M package? I can't speak for the Merlin Assembler because I've never seen it, but the ORCA/M Assembler is definitely worth getting. Most Assembly code you'll find for the GS is completely compatible with it. The Byte Works (the people that make ORCA) helped produce the APW Assembler and the ORCA assembler is the same thing as the APW Assembler, so code written for one will almost always work for the other. If you want to stay 'main-stream' in GS assembly, ORCA/M would probably be the best route. -------- ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com