Choosing the wrong M6800 assembler

1 · Tobias V. Langhoff · April 29, 2020, midnight
Using the wrong assembler can set your MC6800 on fire. This post is part of a series on writing an emulator for the DREAM 6800 computer. Read the DREAM 6800 posts and look at the emulator’s repository. I’ve done a little homebrew for the Fairchild Channel F in the past, which was one of the earliest video game consoles. I’ll probably write separate articles on that later. While developing for the Channel F’s F8 CPU, I used a nice little assembler called dasm. So when I recently did some Motoro...