Made my first assembly program just now. :) http://snarc.net/h.jpg I was nudged by Ragooman, inspired by attending Kfest, and grateful for the book "Apple Roots" (the previously recommended book "Assembly Lines" left my brain in a knot after 5 pages). I read chapters 1, 3, and 4 -- skipped chapter 2 about number systems because I already understand that well enough to fake it and it didn't seem pivotal to * jumping in and doing something *. I used ProDOS Assembly Tools which I downloaded from the Asimov site. (Adam convinced me to switch to a real program like Merlin soon.) Tried the sample program (ADDNRS) in chapters 3/4 and got it to work after Facebook user Katherine S. in the Apple II group noted that I was missing some spaces in the sample code. After that it assembled without errors. Our own list member Paul H. provided additional insight. Then, armed with sleep-deprived confidence, I went back and applied what I learned to the "HI" example in chapter 1. That worked too, so I looked up the number chart at the back of the book and changed it to HELLO WORLD. It worked but I had a typo in the output: it showed a hyphen instead of a space. That was a good thing because it forced me to download the manual and learn how to load and edit the listing. Corrected it and this time it showed HELLO WORL ... what happened to the D? Looked again and I'd forgotten the final $FDED to display what I LDA'd. Okay then! Now it works. I have absolutely no clue if this is the "correct" way to make a hello world in Apple II 6502 assembly. I understand there's probably a more efficient way to do it. But for now, I basically skimmed three of the first four chapters and wound up with this: 1 ORG $1000 2 LDA #200 3 JSR $FDED 4 LDA #197 5 JSR $FDED 6 LDA #204 7 JSR $FDED 8 LDA #204 9 JSR $FDED 10 LDA #207 11 JSR $FDED 12 LDA #160 13 JSR $FDED 14 LDA #215 15 JSR $FDED 16 LDA #207 17 JSR $FDED 18 LDA #210 19 JSR $FDED 20 LDA #204 21 JSR $FDED 22 LDA #196 23 JSR $FDED 24 RTS Efficient or not, it works! ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan@vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation