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Indeed, I pretty much learned programming on the C64 using Turbo Assembler which had macro functionality.
by gillianseed 13y ago
Indeed, I pretty much learned programming on the C64 using Turbo Assembler which had macro functionality.
- MrCool2000 13y agoAFAIK the Turbo Assembler was producing x86 bytecode, how would that work?
- qw 13y agohttp://turbo.style64.org/about-the-turbo-assembler-homepage http://turbo.style64.org/about-the-turbo-assembler-homepage "Turbo Assembler is a native c64 assembler which was introduced in 1985 by the German company, Omikron."
- pjmlp 13y ago> x86 bytecode What?!
- mehmetemre 13y agoI guess he's talking about Borland's Turbo Assembler that was coming with Turbo Pascal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assembler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assembler
- pjmlp 13y agoMy remark was because the OP used bytecode to describe assembly opcodes.
- nkurz 13y agoThe usage is nonstandard, but it provides an interesting perspective. What if he was planning to run the X86 code on a virtual CPU, is his usage then correct? Does the nature of compiled code change if it is executing on a "real" machine instead of a virtual one?
- pjmlp 13y agoI would say yes, given that some bytecode instruction sets make a CISC processor look like a RISC one.
- gillianseed 13y agoYou must be confusing Turbo Assembler on the Commodore 64 with something else, the C64 used an 8-bit cpu called 6510
- jamiesonbecker 13y agoI learned assembly on the Atari 8-bit (like the C64 and AII, all of which used a variant of the Motorola 6502) which had an assembler named MAC/65. MAC, of course, was short for macro. This was in the early 80's also. Good times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC/65 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC/65