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From: cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Merlin Pro
Message-ID: <1990Mar6.061210.5865@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 06:12:10 GMT
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In article <2080@husc6.harvard.edu> huang@husc4.UUCP (Howard Huang) writes:
>The last I heard, there are two newer versions of Merlin, but neither of
>them are technically Merlin-PRO.  One is Merlin 8/16, and the other is
>Merlin 16+.  As you can guess, these are directed toward the IIgs.  They
>SHOULD run on a //e, but I'm not sure about that.

Merlin 8/16, as far as the ads I've seen go, does work on the IIe--or any other
8-bit Apple.  It is merely capable of generating 65816 code if you need it.  I
don't think I've ever heard of Merlin 16+, though.

>Nibble magazine's parent company (MindCraft, I think it's called now) sells
>an assembler for around $50.  It supports the 65C02, "expanded memory" (just
>how much? I dunno), and there's a macro package available separately that
>kinda simulates Applesoft commands.

I have that assembler.  If you have 128K, it'll move itself into the /RAM disk
for faster operation (fewer disk accesses).  It assembles source code from a
disk file to another disk file, so you can create programs of any size, using
segments if necessary.  (The editor, I think, handles 25-30K of source at a
time, so if you need something larger, you just use the COP pseudo-op to
chain to another source file.)  MacroSoft is another $50; I don't have it,
so I can't say much about it.  Macros supplied with the MindCraft (formerly
MicroSPARC) Assembler allow cross-assembly to the 8080 and Sweet-16.  (The
8080, I think, is for CP/M.  I have never figured out what Sweet-16 does;
it's supposed to be a 16-bit processor emulator or something like that.)

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