[Coco] Announcing LWTOOLS

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:01:26PM -0700, William Astle wrote:
> As several people on the coco3.com chat room know, I have been tinkering
> away at an assembler and linker for the 6x09 CPUs. Of course, we already
> have enough assemblers for ten CoCo communities, but, hey, I'm not
> trying to make money on this one.
> 
> I inflict this on the world in case anyone finds it useful.
> 
> A brief overview of some of the features is as follows:
> 
> - macros
> - local symbols
> - raw and LOADM style binaries
> - assembly to object files which can be linked later
> - documentation (yes, that is a feature. :) )
> 
> LWTOOLS is known to compile and run on Linux systems. It is distributed
> in source form from my web site. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. The
> direct link to the LWTOOLS site is:
> 
> http://lost.l-w.ca/coco/lwtools/
> 
> No doubt there are bugs and unfortunate features. Feedback is welcome.
> So are bugfixes.

Hey, cool!  That looks pretty thorough.  It is good to see some more
tools work in the community.

Maybe we should have some tools talks at the fest?

John
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