newbie building a scratch-built computer (River)

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 19:41, woodelf wrote:
> > If the whole purpose of this exercise is to have an old 8-bit system so
> > you can program in hex and/or assembler, then you can download an
> > emulator and play around with it from there. If you mainly want to run
> > things off the various serial and parallel ports then something like the
> > Micro-KIM would be useful.
>
> The other disadvantage is with a NEW scratch built computer is the software
> tools needed like a assembler.
> Ben alias Woodelf

I've been thinking about that,  aren't there cross-assemblers out there that 
would do the job?  I'd be interested in hearing about any that would run 
under linux,  for the z80,  8085,  or 6502 chips...

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