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- From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
- Subject: Re: Kermit-65 source code
- Message-ID: <C0FH1I.6I7@merk.com>
- Keywords: makebin.c, KERMIT-65, assembler, 6502
- Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
- References: <C07sBJ.Juv@merk.com> <C0DJxn.7MI@merk.com> <1993Jan6.010420.9900@mtu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:27:17 GMT
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- On January 6, 1993 at 01:04:20 GMT
- jjmcwill@mtu.edu (Jeff McWilliams) says:
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- > Makebin.c was supposed to take the text file, and turn it into
- > an actual binary file. But it didn't, and now you want to make
- > a program that does.... is this correct?
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- Essentially, but not exactly. There are several solutions to this
- problem. I am just wondering what a "best case" scenario would be: using
- a UNIX system to create executible (fast with lots of space but not
- available to all 8-bitters) ? Loading the hex code "inline" on the 8-bit
- by using some programming language such as a PD version of FORTH that
- allows for inline code modules? Using a "BASIC POKEr loader" on the ATARI
- 6502 8-BIT (slow but universal) so that other hex code output can be loaded
- and saved? Programs to do such things exist already and need only be
- modified. I am just wondering what the accepted methodology is, not being
- an assembly language programmer by trade. Since "makebin.c" appears to
- have been abandoned I presume that a better method had been found?
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- My question is: What is the programming path to go from the 6502
- assembler source code of KERMIT-65 that was posted on the ATARI archive to
- a working image of the binary executible? The cardinal rule is to usually
- "follow the MAKE file", but the final step in the "make" appears to have
- been abandoned only half-way completed (emphasis on "appears to be"... I
- suppose I am overlooking something that is entirely obvious, which is
- usually what is happening in cases like this).
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