ASSEMBLY

                                         1. Fantasm

Etymology: see *

MAC NAME:  Fantasm 

VERSION: 3.01                                 

README: 
"The purpose of Fantasm is to allow you to develop machine code programs for the Apple Macintosh range of computers.
You enter the assembly language program in a separate editor, either as one file, or a series of smaller files. These are assembled into a machine code program by Fantasm, which you then test (debug). If the program does not work as you expect, you go back to the editor, modify the program (source code), re assemble and test again until it does work."

AUTHORS:
Stuart Ball
Robert Probin
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) Lightsoft, U.K., 1995

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mac/fantasm/
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/
ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/dev/     
Info-Mac
UMich

Old versions:                                                                                                  
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mac/fantasm/                                      ftp://MacFTP.RZ.Uni-Augsburg.DE/pub/programming/                ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/             

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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:11:16 -0200
To: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" <xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr>
From: Lightsoft <lightsoft@zedworld.demon.co.uk>

>I have a question about the language name:
>Why the greek word fantasm ?
>(FANTASM = FAst [NT] ASseMbler ? )
>Thank you

The reason is quite simple. We have part of a 3D game called 'Fantasy'.
When we transfered to the mac, we wanted an assembler that would assemble it. Hence the fantasy-assembler, or fant-asm. Hence Fantasm was born.

What does fantasm mean in greek, then? (Nothing rude one hopes!)

Regards

Rob Probin for Lightsoft.

                                         2. MAS

Etymology:
MAS = Macintosh Assembly System

MAC NAME: MASAssembler  

VERSION:  2.0                      

README: 
" MAS is a complete interactive system for assembly language programming." 

AUTHOR(S) :-
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1992 RamSoft, Stockton,CA

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Programming/Languages/

                                         3. MDP-80

Etymology: see README

MAC NAME: MDP-80  

VERSION: 1.3                       

README:
"MDP-80 is a simulated 8-bit microcomputer/assembler.  I started writing this for high school students in order to introduce them to some of the concepts from microprocessors, machine language programming, and assembly language programming.... 
MDP stands for Maria, David, and Peter, my wife and two sons.  Since I started this Paul has come along but MDPP seemed rather silly.  The 8008 is an obvious copy from Intel, and if the machine code and microprocessor architecture seems familiar you must have used the Motorola 6502 sometime in the past! "

AUTHORS:
Ronald T. Kneusel
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) Ronald T. Kneusel, March 1994

INTERNET SITES:
Info-Mac
UMich
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/

                                         4. MI

Etymology: see README

MAC NAME: MI Assembler

VERSION: 1.2                                 

README: 
"This package contains the Macintosh port of the MI ("Maschine
fuer die Informatikausbildung"), based on version 7.4c of the MI
for UNIX which was developped at the "Technische Universitaet
Muenchen" (Germany)."

AUTHOR:  
mac port:
Franz Huber
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) TU Muenchen, 1991

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/programming/languages/MI/mac/