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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Good C-64 Assemblers Needed (Rip-off companines, really. Fast)
Summary: A tale of fast disk drives, loose women, and no-so-slick Shysters.
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Date: 4 Jan 88 09:00:57 GMT
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In article <2650@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:

>...I get better performance with a SFD-1001 with any
>decent IEEE card (or even not-so-decent ones like the Skyles IEEE-Flash, an
>excercise in overpriced cheapness -- an EPROM, a PIA, and a couple of popcorn
>TTL).

Actually old versions of IEEE-Flash used to be a *lot* faster.  Yes, I have
an axe to grind...

I designed the hardware and software for the first IEEE-Flash.  After a 
"contract dispute" Skyles stole the hardware outright, refused to pay 
due royalties on sold units, and re-wrote the software to make the "new"
IEEE-Flash.  Vastly inferior software, by the way.

In my opinion the only thing wrong with the hardware is that it is only spec'ed
for a maximum of two "Commodore" style IEEE devices.  Not a bad limitation
considering the market.  I always like input on my designs, so feel free
to pick nits with the hardware.  The frugalness of the design was quite
intentional.  The software at this point is out of my hands.

Oh, yes:
 
  "As an engineer I only set the value of
  the product, not the price." -Bryce Nesbitt

And:

	"All lawers are slime"  (At least EVERY single one I have ever met)



>For my assembler, I'm currently using CASM 2.1 (as posted to the net eons
>ago)

CASM is up to 3.25C.  The 'C' is a hack I added in for the C-128... it pops
the CPU to 2Mhz during assembly.  Casm is, naturally, meant to integrate with
the Texit editor.  The author of all of this is dillon@cory.berkeley.EDU
(ucbvax!cory!dillon).  I'm not sure he will be of much help... the PET/C-64 is
old history to him.  He did write an Amiga-->C-64 cross-assembler system.


>I solve the reboot hassle simply by having two
>machines :-}.

Same here.  My standard setup is a cable running from one to the other via
the hardware shift registers on the CIA.  'Starmon' in ROM on the destination
side.  Works great.


>Eric Lee Green  elg@usl.CSNET


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