[HN Gopher] 6502 SpASM (6502 Spreadsheet Assembler and Linker) ___________________________________________________________________ 6502 SpASM (6502 Spreadsheet Assembler and Linker) Author : panic Score : 20 points Date : 2021-03-18 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | 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). | | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-18 23:00 UTC)