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From: sobol@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Steven Sobol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Sweet 16 -- what is it?
Message-ID: <1990Mar7.214439.10233@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 21:44:39 GMT
References: <90065.143316BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: sobol@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Steven Sobol)
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In article <90065.143316BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu> BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ben Liblit) writes:
>Sweet 16 was mentioned recently on c.s.apple in a discussion about Merlin Pro
>and other Apple //e assemblers.  I have Merlin Pro myself, and have always been
>perplexed by the occasional reference to Sweet 16.  Just what *is* it?

Sweet 16 is (as was already mentioned in this group) a program which was
supposed to emulate a 16-bit CPU. It uses sixteen 16-bit registers. Their
values are stored in memory locations 0-31. 0-1 is the accumulator (R0), 
2-3 is reg. R1, and so on to R15 (memory locations 30-31). Merlin Pro can
generate Sweet 16 code, but you need the actual emulator program to run it.
I know I have it somewhere at home (Cleveland), but I haven't even used,
or programmed, an Apple II in quite a while. If I remember correctly, it was
originally distributed with a special Apple II ROM chip called the
Programmer's Aid (correct me if I'm wrong...?)
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