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I knew what an assembler was (because my friend who had a C64 had one), but it was too darn expensive, so I wrote one myself in MSX BASIC :) Though it was very
by wazoox 4y ago
I knew what an assembler was (because my friend who had a C64 had one), but it was too darn expensive, so I wrote one myself in MSX BASIC :) Though it was very primitive, and didn't implement much more than an opcode table and a load and save to tape feature.
- actionfromafar 4y agoI bought one from a classified in a computer magazine. The guy who sold it had written it himself, in hand assembled machine code. I knew there existed other assemblers, but I couldn't find any to pirate or buy. I didn't have a disk drive, only the standard cassette deck, so before selling it to me he had to slightly rewrite the assembler to support loading and saving programs to cassette. In the end, the syntax was not exactly like in the Rodney books. Some examples worked, some not, so I resorted quite a bit to hand assembling myself.
- wazoox 4y agoAs I had the Rodney book (and no disk drive: it was twice as expensive as my computer!) at least I implemented my assembler as the one from the book :)