Apple II for into to microprocessors

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Wed Jul 11 23:21:39 2001

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:11:25PM -0400, Eric Chomko wrote:
> Don't you really have to have a ROM monitor to play with? Assembly is fine, but
> one really should START with binary code on any starter mircoprocessor system,
> IMO. Its a bootstrap process. Assemebly language (6502 at that) comes afterward
> (learning process). Seems the Apple IIe is too high-level for beginners on the
> system. Isn't it native in BASIC? Can you get to a ROM monitor from BASIC? I
> have a IIe that would be fun to play around at the ROM level.

You have a ROM monitor and (either on original ][s or the enhanced //e and
newer) a small assembler. There are more sophisticated assemblers too.
>From BASIC you just CALL -151. DOS works from the monitor too, and BASIC
and machine language work together pretty nicely.

-- Derek
Received on Wed Jul 11 2001 - 23:21:39 BST