[Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

[Little John]

Now here's a name I recognize, William Astle - I recall using a BASIC 
disassembler that you wrote in the early  to mid 90's - seems that I recall 
you were but a youngster back then. :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Astle" <lost at l-w.ca>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution


> On 10-09-18 02:51 PM, Ciaran Anscomb wrote:
>> Roger Taylor wrote:
>>>> I do wish I had some way to do CoCo development on my Linux box; not
>>>> that I currently have the time or a project in mind, much - but
>>>> knowing I had that option would be nice. Maybe the Rainbow IDE would
>>>> run under Wine?
>>>
>>> Yes, the Rainbow IDE will run under the Wine Windows emulator in Linux.
>>
>> And there are other - perhaps more familiar to a Unix user - ways,
>> sans-IDE.  Nothing stopping you writing a nice Makefile, and using
>> a command line assembler.
>>
>> http://www.hermannseib.com/english/opensource.htm
>>    - a09: old project based on native Flex assembler, nice and fast
>> http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/asm6809.shtml
>>    - slowish as it's perl, tries to be "like a09 but better"
>> http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/
>>    - contains mamou, not sure where the docs are though
>> http://pgb-arb.homeip.net/ashtml/asxxxx.htm
>>    - various assemblers, not used them myself
>>
>> Of course the syntax accepted will vary between all of them: I like the
>> a09- (and thus presumably TSC-) style local labels.  mamou doubtless
>> does 6309 as I think they build NitrOS-9 with it.
>
> Allow me to add a shameless plug for lwtools, my own contribution to the 
> 6x09 assembler world.
>
> http://lost.l-w.ca/coco/lwtools/
>
> Open source with a Win32 binary as well. Comes with an assembler and also 
> supports multi-file assembly and linking using a proprietary object format 
> (which is also documented). It supports local labels, macros, 6309 
> opcodes, and a few other things.
>
> For the record, I've used mamou and found it to be an excellent program. 
> It just didn't have all the features I wanted and I kept managing to get 
> phasing errors. (It's been several years so the phasing error thing may 
> well be solved.)
>
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> William Astle
> lost at l-w.ca
>
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