Date : Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:10:39 +0000 (GMT)
From : hick.bbc@... (gARetH baBB)
Subject: Assembling large files
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Peter Coghlan wrote:
> Back in the day, I wrote a paged rom assembler specifically to be able to
> assemble the source for a 16K paged rom on a model B with reasonable speed.
> It borrowed heavily from BBC Basic but in the way that BBC Basic was Basic with
> an assembler tacked on, this was supposed to be an assembler with bits of Basic
> tacked on. It uses tokenised source and can do include files (even nested I
> think). Editing is functionally similar to editing a Basic program except that
I think ADE+ could do tokenisation - I never liked how ADE+ did things
though.
It was a bit too trying to be clever and pointless restrictions.