Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
>> It's also a shame that Apple II libraries of relocatable software never
>> became popular (though the interface problems are myriad).  The EDASM
>> package loader was quite capable.  At the time, I never did any projects
>> large enough to justify separate assemblies and linking--come to think
>> of it, I still haven't!  ;-)
> 
> I used M80 and L80 from the Microsoft Assembly Language Development 
> System to cross assemble and link/locate the host side of the CardZ180 
> operating system.  The package supports a Fortran-like common segment 
> that I used to great advantage in setting up jump tables at link time.
> 
> The stock ALDS package refuses to run on anything other than Microsoft 
> CP/M 2.20 or 2.23 (original Softcard), but there was a very well known 
> hack to disable the environment check.  Herbert Oppman reverse 
> engineered and hacked M80 to speak 65C02 opcodes, which came in quite 
> handy.  Not sure how many folks know about or use m80/l80, but they are 
> quite a bit more sophisticated than any of the native Apple development 
> tools of their day.

Do you have a reference to the hack to allow ALDS to run on an
AppliCard?

-michael

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