At first I didn't have an assembler on the Apple ][ so I wrote a horrible Applesoft tool that would calculate jumps and do a little bit of what a real assembler

At first I didn't have an assembler on the Apple ][ so I wrote a horrible Applesoft tool that would calculate jumps and do a little bit of what a real assembler does. Later I used something called BigMac, I think. I didn't understand macros at all, though, until years later.