Apple II for into to microprocessors

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jul 12 04:02:01 2001

>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.

Its been a few years, but call -151 drops you into the monitor, with a
miniassembler and various other simple tools.

BTW I bought a cheapo book at MicroCenter that included a software
emulation/display CD of some processor, I can't remember whether it was
powerPC or AMD, I am thinking its the K6. I'll have to look around for it.
Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 04:02:01 BST