Date   : Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:13:19 +0000 (WET)
From   : BBCMICRO@... (Peter Coghlan)
Subject: Assembling large files

>
>> 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.
>
>...did you ever make (the not quite finished...) version available?
>

I think I may have sent it to someone on the list years ago. Anyway, I've
put it up here now:

http://software.beyondthepale.ie/bbcmicro/assembler/

The documentation was mainly in my head so I've thrown together a quick text
file which I hope is mostly correct.

>
>> and blocks of lines can be quickly moved, copied or deleted and there are
>> find and change commands.
>
>All would be nice - for the editing facilities of the average Beeb are 
>"okay" for early '80s, but... well... let's just say I can't imagine how 
>I ever coped writing code like that. I guess the likes of Zap and VB 
>have spoiled me. ;-)
>

Don't get your hopes up - it's very like BBC BASIC editing, just faster and
with a few extras. Also, line numbers which change when lines are added or
deleted can be hard to get used to, particularly if used to environments
where they don't such as BBC BASIC.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.