Category: Assemblers

The gals over at Paleotronic (Melody and April) have been busy with their two new web-based interface for Applesoft and for assembly language (MERLIN) editing and assembling. According to their release, We’ve created two new web-based interfaces for our cyanIIde Apple II webassembly emulator! The first allows you to load and edit Applesoft BASIC programs using a CodeMirror-based editor with syntax highlighting and colon line separation.  You can choose from a library of hundreds of BASIC programs, edit them, and…

Francois Vander Linden has performed what he is specifying as one of the last updates for a while to his 6502 Spreadsheet Assembler or SpASM. His latest release, version 1.2.1 includes a host of new features including: now supports commented code lines added ADI/DCI added SDI added INV/FLS/BLK added “HEX bytes,n” support added “HEX one_byte,” support moved Example in another workbook that will get updates only if needed The Spreadsheet Assembler functions in both Microsoft Excel as well as Libre…

The SpASM 6502 Spreadsheet Assembler has been updated. SpASM version 1.2.0 includes a new Linker as part of the Assembler and also includes Error Checking. According the the A2SE posting by Francois Vander Linden , SpASM’s author, “ You can now use the worksheets as code modules. All the assemblies are then automatically linked, ready to be copied/pasted into your favorite emulator.Sample code that displays Mario on screen, callable from Applesoft is included.” SpASM 1.20 will work in either Microsoft…

Francois Vander Linden has updated his SpASM 6502 Spreadsheet Assembler to version 1.1.2. Included updates from versions 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 of the SpASM 6502 Assembler include: fixed more bytes count for some opcodes rewrote the byte count detection in order to avoid possible circular references column D is now colored as comments, it’s meant to be used as full-line comments fixed instructions because columns were shifted with latest release added syntax highlighting for SUBs deleted Excel external link SpASM 6502…

The 6502 Spreadsheet ASseMbler has been updated to v1.1.0.In this version: the ability to use ORG anywhere in your code so you can start a new code section in another address support for #label, #<label and #>label with HEX opcode so you can reference addresses, MSB and LSB (of course this was already possible with real 6502 instructions like LDA, STA, etc.) display of the cycle count for each line of code a few bugfixes You can Download 6502 SpASM…

Francois Vander Linden has posted a proof of concept for his Excel Spreadsheet Assembler. As it is still in very rough form, Franco obviously has some hopes for it saying, ” I think it might be useful for some rapid 6502 test routines with an emulator for example.” Some of the features included in the assembler are: all the 6502 instructions plus a couple of pseudo-instructions – all addressing modes global and local labels EQUs to declare constants use of…

Thanks to the efforts of Antoine Vignau and John Morris, the Merlin 32 App is now available as a 64-bit app for both the x86 based and the M1 based Mac computers. The Merlin 32 App is available as a free download from the Brutal Deluxe software website at:http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/merlin/

Paris, January 6th, 2015 – Brutal Deluxe Sofware releases Merlin 32 Merlin 32 is a multi-pass Cross Assembler running under Windows targeting 8-bit processors in the 6502 series (such as 6502 and 65c02) and the 16 bit 65c816 processor. It is compatible with Glen Bredon’s Merlin 16+ syntax, including support for Macros, Pre-processor, Logical Expressions, Conditional Operations, Variables, Loops, Local Labels… It can build fixed position object code or relocatable executables (OMF v2.1) as we can find on 16-bit APPLE…

After a request by Willi Kuche, the Apple ][ community came together and managed to come up with two versions of the source code for Glen Bredon’s Mr. Fixit for Prosel 8.  Being as no original source code was available, two people in particular disassembled the program and have posted their respective versions to the internet. Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe Software posted his Merlin based version of the source code at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/public/mrfixit/ Willi Kuche also decided to create a…

The Apple ][ is country’s best seller?  This is what Phil Roybal, Apple Computer’s marketing manager expressed to us when we asked him recently.  Apple’s new Shuggart mini-floppy has now been officially announced at an unbelievably low $495.  The Delievery is scheduled to commence in lat June.  This drop of $200 was enough to influence our decision to buy. The Applesoft II ROM board will be available at $100 for an introductory period only, running through July 31st, at which…