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Feature Suggestion: Convert from BeebAsm -> BBC assembler?
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Author:  Samwise [ Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Feature Suggestion: Convert from BeebAsm -> BBC assembler?
Rich,

Totally off-the-wall idea, but I wonder if there'd be any call for a converter function for BeebAsm. Feed in a BeebAsm assembler file and spit out an SSD with the same code as a BBC BASIC program with assembler i.e. turn your BeebAsm project into a BBC magazine type-in with one command.

I have no idea if that's even remotely feasible, or even if anyone would ever use it (I can think of one use for it, but that hardly counts as popular support!) ... but thought I'd post it here anyway. :)

Sam.
Author:  RichTW [ Sat Mar 05, 2011 1:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Feature Suggestion: Convert from BeebAsm -> BBC assemble
I don't really see the use in it to be honest (the whole point of BeebAsm is to help you avoid the emulated BBC environment!), but also it'd be difficult for larger projects, where the problem is always about dividing memory between source code, variables, and object code, all in 27k of memory!

But I'm intrigued - what do you possibly have in mind that would make this a useful feature? :?

Incidentally, I'm reasonably sure that, given the very similar syntax to BBC BASIC, you could probably approximate this with a clever (and very lengthy) regular expression (to add header and footer to the program, and to convert the BeebAsm commands into their BASIC equivalents). But I won't volunteer such a behemoth myself :D

(Have a great trip if you've already started on your way...)
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