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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Assemblers
Keywords: amiga,assembler,debugger,package
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Date: 17 Oct 89 22:40:03 GMT
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In <1989Oct11.205833.28122@i-core.UUCP>, pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete Ashdown) writes:
>I have literally used them ALL in the search for the best one.  The
>final conclusion is CAPE by Inovatronics.  I use the the line-based
>assembler with TxEd as my editor.  It is extremely fast and VERY
>compatible with Metascope, a problem that assemblers like AssemPro and
>HiSoft run into.  HiSoft is the fastest, but again, its compatibility
>is not 100%.

I have both HiSoft and CAPE, and use HiSoft mainly because of speed. I have not
found any incompatibility with MetaScope. I am very much looking forward to Jez
San's ArgAsm (great name), said to be much faster then even HiSoft's.

-larry

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