Coding with Merlin 128 & Sams Book | Episode 5

In this video I write a short program using the SAMs Commodore 128 Assembly Language book as inspiration.
Link to Merlin 128 Playlist:
• Merlin 128
Source code for this video is on my Github:
github.com/gra...
Sams Book download link:
archive.org/de...
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[@miselzivanovic2181]

Since several months i am learning assembly language and my last choices were Merlin 128 or Edass 128 after i tried everything i could find for C128.
I actually liked Merlin more, but Edass won the battle because it's less menu driven and faster to use after you configure the F-Keys with commands.
It's unfortunately an old (German) version from back in 1986 but working rock solid. Newer is from 1988 which i can't find nowhere.
(Actually, found one, but it's unusable, crashing if you want to do something with it...)
After this vid, i'll check Merlin again.

[@OTuit]

To input code, I use my Android phone to take a picture of the code, then use Lens to copy the text to the desktop. Works better than printing the page and using my scanner's OCR function.

[@saganandroid4175]

Close out the series???? What about all the directives and pseudo opcodes macros etc etc? Merlin has all kinds of essential cool abilities i don't think you covered.

[@GRayDefender]

I closed it out since I put in a lot of work not it was not well received so I decided to focus my efforts elsewhere.

[@saganandroid4175]

@@GRayDefender well you have to promote the hell out of it like every else does. Organic doesn't work against algorithms much. Hence why people promote their video on Facebook, reddit, Twitter, etc. That's the paradox, it takes a long time to build enough critical mass such that YT shows your stuff even to your subscriber- of which l am one. And still l had no idea you uploaded more Merlin videos. I have to go looking. And as you know, tubers search routine is not very good. Add to that, ML for 6502 is niche, and 128 is more niche than C64. I know people on FB were excited to hear somebody was starting videos on Merlin for 128. Maybe doing a C64 Merlin edition will get more people rolling to your channel.