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Merlin (assembler)

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Merlin was an assembler developed by Glen Bredon, initially for the Apple II family and the 6502 processor. The product was published commercially by Southwestern Data Systems, later known as Roger Wagner Publishing. The product continued to be developed as new successors to the 6502 became available: first the 65C02 and later the 65816 and 65802. The 8-bit version of Merlin was later renamed Merlin 8, and a 16-bit version, dubbed Merlin 16, was released for the Apple IIgs. Versions for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128, dubbed Merlin 64 and Merlin 128 respectively, were also released.

Merlin was a quite popular assembler on the Apple II platform, and source files in Merlin format are common in Apple II archives.