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Re: Integrated development on emulators: The next step

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, D Finnigan wrote:

> Here's an idea for the Apple II emulator authors: why don't we have
> emulators with an integrated assembler? The assembler would produce object
> code copied directly in the RAM of the emulated machine. Or the object code
> would be copied to a ProDOS or DOS 3.3 disk image.
>
> Furthermore, why not integrate a C compiler or some other high-level
> language? Output options would be the same: the object could would be
> written directly to the emulated RAM, ready for execution. Or it could be
> copied to a disk image.
>
> I think that these features would speed up cross-development considerably.
> It would be a lot easier to interchange source files with the host
> environment, across the Internet, and in version control systems.

One of my abandoned projects, which was written by me and Holger Picker, 
actually did have an integrated assembler and even used it to roll the 
slot ROMs on the fly.  I thought of rewriting the code so it wasn't just a 
binary blob, but never got around to it.

Now that I have other content, like Gameware, and most of FPBASIC is fair 
game, this could be extended even further.

-uso.

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Integrated development on emulators: The next step D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2025-10-07 14:47 +0000
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      Re: Integrated development on emulators: The next step D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2025-10-14 19:14 +0000
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