12 Jul
2001
12 Jul
'01
4:02 a.m.
Don't you really have to have a ROM monitor to play
with? Assembly is
fine, but
one really should START with binary code on any starter mircoprocessor system,
IMO. Its a bootstrap process. Assemebly language (6502 at that) comes
afterward
(learning process). Seems the Apple IIe is too high-level for beginners
on the
system. Isn't it native in BASIC? Can you get to a ROM monitor from BASIC? I
have a IIe that would be fun to play around at the ROM level.
Its been a few years, but call -151 drops you into the monitor, with a
miniassembler and various other simple tools.
BTW I bought a cheapo book at MicroCenter that included a software
emulation/display CD of some processor, I can't remember whether it was
powerPC or AMD, I am thinking its the K6. I'll have to look around for it.