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Machine Language Manager

Machine Language Manager

Console: Bally Astrocade
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: Not Rated
Type: Education

Machine Language Manager, by Bit Fiddler's, is a full machine language monitor for the Bally Astrocade system that was released in 1982. It is a 2K cartridge intended for use by machine language programmers that have probably already dabbled a little bit with coding in ML using the Bally BASIC cartridge. Z80 Machine Code code is entered via hexadecimal using a special keypad overlay. The monitor doesn't have the functions of more advanced monitors on other computers from the same period. In fact, it has some strange idiosyncrasies (for instance, there is no backspace key), but compared to programming in machine language via the AstroBASIC cartridge, the Machine Language Manager is a breeze to use