What is the best assembler IDE for the LC series? LC III if that matters, but I would like to play with the 68k CPU, just very new to the classic Macs and not sure where to start?
If you are accustomed to *nix development on the command line, you'll find that MPW is similar enough, and also offers a GUI for the various tools and their switches.
I've been using MPW for Macintosh assembly language development for over 2 years now.
I'd like to develop within a Linux environment, not inside an emulator, if I can avoid it. I know that the MacMinix loader ("macboot") was built within Minix [source], but I was wondering if a modern-ish (at least ANSI C, preferrably C99) cross-toolchain exists. The Minix 1.5 era ACK appears to be mostly K&R still.
The problem you will run into is the Macintosh C runtime really isn't compatible with the 68000 compilers of the Unix world.
If you're going to be building code for the LC, it is much easier to do it with any of the half-dozen Macintosh C compilers and debuggers.
On a small machine, Think C is quite nice.