Date   : Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Assembler compiler

Christopher writes:
>Does anyone know of a disc-based compiler for assembly language on the BBC?
>As I have always thought it would be useful if you could edit code in, say,
>View, and compile it afterwards. This would solve the problem of assembly
>programs taking up at least 5 times as much memory as the resultant machine
>code.

I wrote a sideways ROM (or RAM) assembler which reads plain text files. I can
make it available when I manage to get my BBC-Linux link going. I had (and
still have) great plans to turn it into a full macro assembler with separate
assembly and linkage.

a.