What follows are some notes on using the LISA816 assembler. Providing an
assembler as share-ware is a large task- an assembler is usually not the
intuitive kind of program that a word processor or terminal emulator is. So,
even though the accompanying document is 40K long (longer than the assembler!),
everything is not covered.
Of course not! After all, we want you to buy the assembler. However, we also
want you to get a good feel for what LISA's like. Therefore, there are several programs included in the package, including the the source to a SIMPLE CDA. Each file can be LOaded into the assembler, ASMbled (to a file on disk) and run.
Any simple questions may be sent online to
GEnie: HAL.LABS
DELPHI: HALLABS
CompuServe: 72250,3226
Until you buy the assembler, we won't answer more than a few simple questions,
of course. Registers users, of course, get better support.
How to set up LISA816:
LISA816 runs under the ANIX shell. Therefore, you must have ANIX running
before you can use LISA816. Either
1) run ANIX.SYSTEM from basic (ie "-ANIX.SYSTEM")
2) make a boot disk with PRODOS and ANIX.SYSTEM
Then, after you have run ANIX, from the ANIX command line, type
LISA816
(assuming that the LISA816 file is in the currently prefixed directory).
ANIX is a command-line interface with many useful programmer extensions;
that's why LISA816 uses it (ANIX was actually developed mainly so that
there would be a decent environment to run LISA in).