[Coco] Linville's ramblings on assembly vs machine code

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 20:57:07 EDT 2017


On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:

>
> Does anyone know who wrote EDTASM?
>
> It sure would be interesing to hear how they awrote it, and what kind of
> development
> platform was used. I think it woul dbe painsful as hell writign an
> assembler in machine language. But, remember before assmblers existed that
> was the only choice.
>
>
I would imagine many of the early cartridges were developed on more
advanced platforms and cross-assembled, much like how Microsoft developed
the Basic ROMs.


- Darren


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