[Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

[William Astle]

On 10-09-18 02:51 PM, Ciaran Anscomb wrote:
> Roger Taylor wrote:
>>> I do wish I had some way to do CoCo development on my Linux box; not
>>> that I currently have the time or a project in mind, much - but
>>> knowing I had that option would be nice. Maybe the Rainbow IDE would
>>> run under Wine?
>>
>> Yes, the Rainbow IDE will run under the Wine Windows emulator in Linux.
>
> And there are other - perhaps more familiar to a Unix user - ways,
> sans-IDE.  Nothing stopping you writing a nice Makefile, and using
> a command line assembler.
>
> http://www.hermannseib.com/english/opensource.htm
>    - a09: old project based on native Flex assembler, nice and fast
> http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/asm6809.shtml
>    - slowish as it's perl, tries to be "like a09 but better"
> http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/
>    - contains mamou, not sure where the docs are though
> http://pgb-arb.homeip.net/ashtml/asxxxx.htm
>    - various assemblers, not used them myself
>
> Of course the syntax accepted will vary between all of them: I like the
> a09- (and thus presumably TSC-) style local labels.  mamou doubtless
> does 6309 as I think they build NitrOS-9 with it.

Allow me to add a shameless plug for lwtools, my own contribution to the 
6x09 assembler world.

http://lost.l-w.ca/coco/lwtools/

Open source with a Win32 binary as well. Comes with an assembler and 
also supports multi-file assembly and linking using a proprietary object 
format (which is also documented). It supports local labels, macros, 
6309 opcodes, and a few other things.

For the record, I've used mamou and found it to be an excellent program. 
It just didn't have all the features I wanted and I kept managing to get 
phasing errors. (It's been several years so the phasing error thing may 
well be solved.)

-- 
William Astle
lost at l-w.ca