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Review of
SYMBOL MASTER
Produced by: Schnedler Systems
1501 N. Ivanhoe St.
Arlington, VA 22205
Reviewed by: R.W. 'Bob' Kober
P.O. Box 181
Buffalo, TX 75831
SYMBOL MASTER is a Multi-Pass
Symbolic Disassembler for the C-64.
First, I'll explain what that is.
Most everyone who programs, has a
machine language monitor with a simple
disassembler built in it. Examples of
these monitors are SUPERMON, MICROMON,
DRIVEMON, etc... These monitors also
usually include a simple assembler,
which is suitable for writing very
short machine-language programs, or
making some very minimal modifications
to existing programs. However, to do
any significant programming, a
symbolic assembler is desirable.
Anyone who has followed this far
will appreciate what this program can
do. Very simply stated, it takes any
ML program, and converts it to source
code that any of four assemblers can
use.
Only 30 minutes after I opened the
package and read the first few pages,
I converted the C-64 WEDGE to PAL 64
source code, and then by changing only
one number, the origin, re-assembled
it to memory starting at $1000. Now
moving the WEDGE to this new location
serves no purpose other than to
demonstrate what SYMBOL MASTER is
capable of doing. With just a little
practice, modification of most any ML
program is possible.
The four assemblers supported are
MAE, PAL 64, DEVELOP-64, and CBM 64
MACRO SYSTEM. A version that supports
COMPUTE!S LADS is in development now.
The program cost $49.95, and it
comes on a UN-PROTECTED disk. It even
includes a copy-program along with
many, many other programs.
I truly believe that this would be
a valued addition to any programmers
library.
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