Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video]
by wazoox on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:03AM
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I knew what an assembler was (because my friend who had a C64 had one), but it was too darn expensive, so I wrote one myself in MSX BASIC :) Though it was very primitive, and didn't implement much more than an opcode table and a load and save to tape feature.
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Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video]
by actionfromafar on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:21AM
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I bought one from a classified in a computer magazine. The guy who sold it had written it himself, in hand assembled machine code. I knew there existed other assemblers, but I couldn't find any to pirate or buy.
I didn't have a disk drive, only the standard cassette deck, so before selling it to me he had to slightly rewrite the assembler to support loading and saving programs to cassette.
In the end, the syntax was not exactly like in the Rodney books. Some examples worked, some not, so I resorted quite a bit to hand assembling myself.