Date   : Wed, 05 Jun 2002 22:48:21 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Crossware Cross Assembler

"Chris Richardson" <chris@...> wrote:
>  ............. the cross-assembler s/w produced by "Crossware".
> Do you know any details about it please? - I believe there are ROMs
> involved, but don't know if these are 'sufficient' to run the
> cross-assembler, or if additional floppy-based s/w is needed?
> Besides 65xx and Z80 variants, I'd love to know what other 'target'
> processors were supported by Crossware...
 
I just happen to have the catalogue here <reaches for shelf>...
 
Crossware produces a range of C compilers and machine code assemblers ro
write code targetted at the following microprocessor families:
 
68000, 68020, 8051, 8048, Z80, 8085, 6301, 6305, 6809, 6502, 740.
 
The catalogue I have states that the packages all run on IBM compatible PC
running MS-DOS 2 equivalent or later.
 
That is, you write you program on a PC, compile it and it produces code
that runs on the target machine.
 
Quoting from the 6502 section of the catalogue:
 
"...provides all you need to create assembler code for the 65C02, 65SC02
and 6502 families of microprocessors and generate relocatable, romable
executable code ... runs under MS-DOS 2.0 or above."
 
My catalogue is dated 1994 and the "likely future products" section
includes C program development environment for 6502 targets.  Quoting from
the 68000 section:
 
"The Crossware 68000 Professional Software Development System (PSDS)
provides all you need to generate code for the 68000 and 68008
microprocessors. You can program in C, assembler or both to generate
relocatable, romable executable code ... runs under MS-DOS 2.0 or above."
 
Next time I'm at work I'll have a look at their website to see what their
latest position is.
 
As far as I know, none of Crossware's development packages *ran* on a BBC. 
You would run them on something else, usually a PC, and generate code that
could run on a BBC. I can remember an advert saying they had packages that
ran on CP/M, but not anything about BBCs.
 
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