On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 02:23 AM, John Haumann wrote:
Does anybody remember MACROSOFT for assembly language coding?
Hey, I still have my copy of MacroSoft and The Assembler!
For everyone else: The Assembler and MacroSoft were published by MindCraft Publishing, the publishers of Nibble Magazine. The Assembler was (wait for it) an assembler. MacroSoft was a set of macro libraries for The Assembler which gave you BASIC commands. This allowed you to write a program in BASIC, mix it with assembly if desired, and have the result assembled into machine code. Note that it wasn't a compiler though, every command was just a macro which the assembler would later fill in. It could produce very fast programs, although it was limited in that the graphics and floating point commands just called the AppleSoft BASIC ROM routines, so there was little speed increase in those areas.
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