Comparison of Dragon Assemblers?
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:10 pm
Were any articles published that compared the various Dragon assembler packages? And if so, where were they published?
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The assembler is in principle 6809 specific but in the context here we talk about assembler programs running on the Dragon itself, I suppose.jedie wrote:btw. must a assembler be "Dragon" specific or must it only 6809 specific?
If it runs on a Dragon it better not be CoCo specific (though it is possible to have assemblers that run on both the Dragon and CoCo).jedie wrote:btw. must a assembler be "Dragon" specific or must it only 6809 specific?
Can you explain how it works? Or is there anywhere some documentation?tormod wrote:Attached is the BASIC program "Editor & Assembler" by A.R.Billingham which I typed in from a magazine in 1984.
Found it! It was online, see viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4417tormod wrote:No, I haven't used it in more than 25 years Maybe I will find the magazine one day, and it might have some instructions. Until then, just reading through the listing should give you some hints.
This week I have been playing with Dragon Forth and Tele-Forth on xroar; I also got Dragon Forth, converted from .cas to a .wav to load onto my Tano Dragon. Similar conversion of Tele-Forth .cas from archive.worldofdragon.org using cas2wav does not load when played back from PC audio out. There seems to be a decent editor on Tele-Forth but no built-in Dragon graphics or sound "words". Whereas, Dragon Forth seems to have more Dragon-specific words but a poor editor. I cannot get the N.D.U.G. Forth .vdk version to load at all - presumably needs some sort of Dos loaded first. Best of all Forth implementations I have found has been Color Forth through Coco 2 emulation on xroar. It has an integrated editor, good documentation, and key press sounds .was more productive with Forth. There was also a Forth compiler that I typed in from a magazine.