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Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlinvs ???

From D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlinvs ???
Date 2019-07-30 18:00 +0000
Organization Mac GUI
Message-ID <dog_cow-1564509127@macgui.com> (permalink)
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touvell@gmail.com wrote:
> Many years since doing any programming on the Apple IIs, I've been
> thinking
> about learning to do some assembly language programming on them.

I learned assembly language on the Apple II first by using the
Mini-Assembler built in to the Old Monitor ROM, the enhanced Apple IIe, or
the Apple IIgs.

I also hand-wrote and hand-assembled the code into machine language and
manually entered it using the Monitor. The purpose here was to better learn
and memorize the hex opcodes. This is useful because you'll often be
patching code in RAM to debug it, so there's a handful of opcodes to be
memorized.

The programs I wrote were only a couple dozen bytes in length at most.

After I'd mastered the basics of the instruction set & the simpler
addressing modes, then I moved on the Big Mac and Merlin.

I found the biggest learning curve was the addressing modes, understanding
how they work, and knowing which mode is best suited for which situation.

-- 
]DF$
The New Apple II User's Guide:
https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 08:37 -0700
  Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlinvs ??? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2019-07-30 18:00 +0000
  Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlin vs ??? Andy McFadden <thefadden@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 13:01 -0700
    Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlin vs ??? "Frank M." <frank_o_rama@hotmail.com> - 2019-07-30 14:27 -0700
      Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 18:37 -0700
    Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2019-07-31 00:09 +0000
      Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 18:34 -0700
  Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vs Merlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 15:38 -0700
    Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2019-07-31 00:11 +0000
      Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 18:41 -0700
        Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 19:51 -0700
          Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2019-07-31 21:17 -0700
            Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-01 15:51 -0700
            Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-01 16:07 -0700
              Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? James Davis <JPD.Enterprises@outlook.com> - 2019-08-01 18:54 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-01 20:55 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2019-08-01 23:38 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 06:26 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? andrew.roughan@writeme.com - 2019-08-02 03:38 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 06:42 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 06:54 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 08:45 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? andrew.roughan@writeme.com - 2019-08-02 23:25 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-04 17:40 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? denisbytezone@gmail.com - 2019-08-03 00:54 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? denisbytezone@gmail.com - 2019-08-03 00:58 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2019-08-03 05:14 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-04 05:19 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-04 18:00 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Andrew Roughan <andrew.roughan@writeme.com> - 2019-08-05 10:38 +0000
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 05:21 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 09:54 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2019-08-05 11:17 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 15:19 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Andrew Roughan <andrew.roughan@writeme.com> - 2019-08-06 21:05 +0000
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 17:17 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "Frank M." <frank_o_rama@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-06 19:09 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Andrew Roughan <andrew.roughan@writeme.com> - 2019-08-07 13:44 +0000
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Dave Touvell <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-07 09:01 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2019-08-08 01:27 -0400
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Dave Touvell <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-10 05:45 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2019-08-12 17:53 -0400
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Dave Touvell <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-12 17:28 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2019-08-14 04:43 -0400
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Dave Touvell <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-07 08:58 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA kelvin@pro-kegs.uucp (Kelvin Sherlock) - 2019-08-06 22:28 -0500
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 17:23 -0700
            Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 21:41 -0700
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                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? "touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 17:11 -0700
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                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2019-08-14 12:15 -0700
                Re: Assembler for Learning Assembly Language Programming ORCA vsMerlin vs ??? Dave Touvell <touvell@gmail.com> - 2019-08-14 14:38 -0700
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