Motorola M6800 Cross Assembler, Release 1.3

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In 1974, Motorola had the above cross assembler written in FORTRAN available
to Universities and others to allow the writing of programs for the MC6800 by
faculty and students. Probably commercial users also. I’ve run this assembler
on an IBM-360/50 and an Amdahl 470/v6 at Texas A&M back in the day.

This is a hail Mary pass to find a copy of said program. I’ll pay $100 USD to the
first individual to provide a copy (print, photocopy or ASCII) of the Motorola
Cross Assembler only.

I and three others wrote an Incremental BASIC compiler for the 6800 in 1976.
I have a list of 3000 lines of code from the Motorola assembler that I want to
reproduce and put on GitHub for posterity.

Probably no chance I can find a working Altair 680 or SWTP system to send
someone the resulting S-record file to run.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I know about the current assemblers, but I’m
not interested until there is no other alternative. Want the same environment as
Motorola provided for historical reasons.

ciao

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How important is the Host Computer run environment? Can I assume you know about the M68SAM Fortran source for PDP-11 from 1974/75 on bitsavers here: bitsavers.org/components/motorola/6800/cross-assembler/6800_xasm.for

This should be closer to your early run environment experience than modern cross assemblers.

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I did not know about the PDP-11 version. I downloaded it and it needs some
work to get running. If it does, then you are the winner. Stay tuned.