[HN Gopher] 6502 SpASM (6502 Spreadsheet Assembler and Linker)
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6502 SpASM (6502 Spreadsheet Assembler and Linker)
Author : panic
Score : 20 points
Date : 2021-03-18 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| sedatk wrote:
| Not sure if Excel is the best environment for this. Inserting a
| new line is multiple steps of shortcut keys in Excel while it's
| just Enter on a text editor.
| musicale wrote:
| > Not sure if Excel is the best environment for this
|
| I suppose VisiCalc would be more era-appropriate, but
| Excel/LibreOffice has better programming support.
| stormbrew wrote:
| So like, the thing that immediately jumped to mind seeing this
| is that if you're trying to write assembly for insertion into
| an existing program having it basically live assemble into byte
| representation as you work on it is pretty damn valuable for
| iterating on code while working under space constraints (esp.
| common on 6502).
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| It'd be _nicer_ to have this kind of thing integrated into an
| editor (like vscode) with a live updating view of the assembled
| code, but I can definitely see myself using this.
| bogomipz wrote:
| >"if you're trying to write assembly for insertion into an
| existing program having it basically live assemble into byte
| representation"
|
| This sounds interesting. Could you elaborate on what is meant
| by "live assemble into byte representation"? What exactly
| would the workflow be under which you would be doing this?
| CyberRabbi wrote:
| I love writing 6502, or maybe just 8bit assembler in general . I
| got hooked after writing some NES games. Writing efficient (NOT
| "performant") code that should not be possible is very addictive.
| Stay away if you value your time
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