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MAC80 is a Tops-10 (and probably -20) 8085 cross assembler written in MACRO-10.
It will assemble most CP/M .ASM programs, generating a .HEX file as output.

Most of the features of MAC80 are illustrated in the program TORTUR.M80. Some
of the restrictions are:

o	Labels,macro names, etc. are limited to 12 characters. If more than 12
	characters are found, they are ignored, and a warning message is output.

o	Labels must end with a colon. Macro definitions and EQU statements
	must not.

A feature test switch will allow the generation of a somewhat obscure hex file
extension to support relocation and internal/external references.

MAC80 conforms the the standard compiler command line; *hex,list=source.
TMP files are supported, so that the line

X MAC80,M80,MAC80,,HEX,,=

can be placed in COMPIL.MAC to invoke MAC80 like any other assembler. SFDs are
not supported.
\0\0\0\0\0
Commit	Line	Data
c25f6a44 L	1	MAC80 is a Tops-10 (and probably -20) 8085 cross assembler written in MACRO-10.
	2	It will assemble most CP/M .ASM programs, generating a .HEX file as output.
	3
	4	Most of the features of MAC80 are illustrated in the program TORTUR.M80. Some
	5	of the restrictions are:
	6
	7	o Labels,macro names, etc. are limited to 12 characters. If more than 12
	8	characters are found, they are ignored, and a warning message is output.
	9
	10	o Labels must end with a colon. Macro definitions and EQU statements
	11	must not.
	12
	13	A feature test switch will allow the generation of a somewhat obscure hex file
	14	extension to support relocation and internal/external references.
	15
	16	MAC80 conforms the the standard compiler command line; *hex,list=source.
	17	TMP files are supported, so that the line
	18
	19	X MAC80,M80,MAC80,,HEX,,=
	20
	21	can be placed in COMPIL.MAC to invoke MAC80 like any other assembler. SFDs are
	22	not supported.
	23	\0\0\0\0\0