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Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker?

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David:

I respect your 'purist' approach in that you are staying with the Apple IIe
to assemble your Merlin files.

But ...

If the project is more important that the method, may I suggest you try
assembling those big files with Brutal Deluxe's Merlin 32?

I like heavily to comment my Merlin source files and since there is no file
size limit with Merlin 32, I can do just that and not worry.

Another benefit --

Unlike the source code of most of the pros here, my source code rarely
assembles without errors the first (second, third, forth) time through. With
Merlin 32, I can actually read the error messages easily (they scroll off
the screen too quickly on an Apple II emulator, and the space bar doesn't
always work to stop it in time), while at the same time (in another window)
have the source code ready to modify and save for another crack at
'perfection'. I use BBEdit with a modified version of Ivan Drucker's 6502
Language Module (for syntax coloring) for that, but any text editor will
work.

FWIW, I wrote a couple of simple Unix 'filters' and AppleScripts for BBEdit
that convert both to and from Merlin (high bit) files. Merlin 32 requires
'normal' low-bit ASCII and UNIX (LF only) line termination. If someone would
like to see those filters, let me know. Believe me, they're not rocket
surgery. :-)

Again, though, I do appreciate your trying to keep it all on the Apple II.
Just my 2 cents. And thanks, Ivan. Without your pattern to go by, I'd have
been lost on that Language Module.






Hugh Hood




in article dog_cow-1424375335@macgui.com, D Finnigan at dog_cow@macgui.com
wrote on 2/19/15 1:48 PM:

> I've started working on a project using Merlin Pro v2.45 on DOS 3.3 with a
> platinum Apple IIe. I have already hit the 32KB source code limit on DOS
> 3.3, and I removed some comments and unused code but of course I'm going to
> hit the limit again because my source is still growing. I could switch to
> ProDOS, but that only gains me about an extra 10K and eventually I'll hit
> that limit too.
> 
> So, flipping through the Merlin Pro manual, I've decided to try using the
> REL features. I was able to make a little "hello world" demo.
> 
> I want to know if anyone out here in net land has experience using the
> relocatable linker in Merlin Pro with medium to large size projects and can
> offer any remarks or warnings or gotchas with the system.
> 
> Thanks.

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Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-19 19:48 +0000
  Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-19 16:42 -0600
    Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-19 22:51 +0000
      Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-19 17:31 -0600
        Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-20 20:27 +0000
          Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? "Anton Treuenfels" <teamtempest@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-20 17:16 -0600
            Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-21 12:44 -0600
          Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-21 12:44 -0600
            Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-21 20:00 +0000
              Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-22 01:36 -0600
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-23 17:30 +0000
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-23 12:57 -0600
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-23 19:12 +0000
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? wssimms@gmail.com - 2015-02-23 15:44 -0800
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-27 20:07 +0000
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-24 03:16 -0600
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-27 20:11 +0000
  Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2015-02-20 09:59 -0600
    Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-20 20:26 +0000
  Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? jbrooks@blueshiftinc.com - 2015-09-25 21:18 -0700

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