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From: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cross Assembler for 6502
Message-ID: <7731@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 2 Apr 89 03:18:25 GMT
References: <374@accsys.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <374@accsys.UUCP>, hugibaz@accsys.UUCP (Ingo Kraupa) says:
> In article <3908@crash.cts.com> hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson) writes:
>>Does anybody know about a *commercial* cross assmebler
> I have only got the Unix port "as6502", which works quite fine, but much too
> slow. Unfortunately this is pd and not *commercial*.
>>and/or EPROM programmer.  I have heard of both but{ no-one I have talked to

Matt Dillon's DASM is fast but hairy (like most of Matt's code). A
little effort cleaning up the listing format and adding an option for
CBM HAlf-Ascii (if writing code for the Commodore 64) creates a
high-quality solution, however. I tested it on a few thousand lines of
assembler I had hanging about, and it worked just great -- and only
about 30 times faster than as6502 (Matt's code, as usual, screams). 

Haven't seen an Amiga-specific EPROM programmer. But a
RS232-interfaced EPROM programmer might work with very little effort. 

Given the nature of the market (do non-experts write 6502 assembly
language?) I don't see the reason for the emphasis on "commercial". At
least here in the States, if you're an expert, having the source is
much better than "service" that consists of accepting bug fixes and
sending occasional notice that they'll send you a fixed version if you
send them a bunch of money.

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