Pengwin Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 I was wondering if there is an image of the Atari Assembler cartridge available anywhere that I can use with Atari800MacX. I have the cartidge, but as can be seen in my last post (Disaster), my Atari is temporarily, or permanently, out of action and I would like to finally get around to teaching myself 6502 assembly. I know there are better assemblers out there (Mac/65 for one), but I would like to use the same assembler on the emulator as I will be using when I either fix my 800XL or get a replacement. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 (edited) Hello! I think that it is here: http://www.langesite.com/atari/Holmes/Holm...ications%20A-Z/ I tried to add the manual .atr,if you wanted it,but was not allowed to upload an .atr. Wonder why not? Edited October 17, 2006 by dinosaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 Great link Dinosaur. Thanks. I've used Atari's since the 80's and I'm still amazed at the amount of software available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 If you want the assembler manual .atr, PM me with Email address and I send it to you. I really don't understand why I got the message "file format not allowed" when I tried to attach it to my reply.I have attached ATRs before. ????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Many file formats (including ATR) can't be uploaded. You have to put them in a .ZIP file. I wouldn't recommend the Atari ASMED. Assuming your emulator supports bank-switched carts, definitely go MAC-65. Near 100% compatible, and won't have you falling asleep while waiting for assemblies. But, the best option is PC-side Assemblers - nearly instantaneous assemblies although no idea what might be available for the Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urchlay Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 I wouldn't recommend the Atari ASMED. Assuming your emulator supports bank-switched carts, definitely go MAC-65. Near 100% compatible, and won't have you falling asleep while waiting for assemblies. He's using an emulator, so he can cheat: turn off the framerate limiter, bet it'll run 10x the speed of a real Atari on decent hardware (depends on the emu you're using and how fast your CPU is, etc) But, the best option is PC-side Assemblers - nearly instantaneous assemblies although no idea what might be available for the Mac. Absolutely. You get to use a decent text editor and set of tools (I like vim, perl, and the usual UNIXy grep/sed/awk stuff, but lots of people like Textpad or the like. I think I even saw a link to a 6502 ASM plugin for Eclipse on the Programming forum). A Mac running OS X can use DASM, ATASM, ca65 (the assembler that comes with cc65) for sure. If you're wanting to stay Mac/65 compatible, use ATASM: its whole goal is to be as much like Mac/65 as possible (except I think it doesn't require line numbers). Also, a long time ago, I compiled the Atari800 emulator on Linux with no graphics support (just terminal input/output) and wrote a wrapper script that would create an ATR image of Mac/65 plus your code, run Mac/65, then copy the resulting object file to your hard drive (and leave it in the ATR image too, so you could run it with the full-featured version of the emulator)... you'd edit the code on the Linux box, and actually assemble it with the real Mac/65... this would also work fine on a Mac, I think. I should dig up or rewrite that script, it'd be hilarious to see people actually using it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Many file formats (including ATR) can't be uploaded. You have to put them in a .ZIP file. Thanks again,Rybags! Pengwin,here is the manual ATRasedman.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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