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From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: AssemPro any good?
Message-ID: <1192@electro.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 15:04:50 GMT
References: <1626@ultb.UUCP> <1627@ultb.UUCP>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <1627@ultb.UUCP> clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) writes:
>I'm looking to start programming on the ST.  I would prefer to use
>Assembly over a high level language, but am not sure of the best package
>to get.  I've heard AssemPro is quite good.  Anybody have any comments
>on this or another package?



try ordering MadMac from atari (it comes as part of their development kit).
it is blindingly fast, and supports standard motorola syntax  and standard
comment delimiters (try that with that idiotic mark williams assembler!) 
it produces normal dri compatible object files, so you can link them with
Laser C, atari's aln linker, or any dri compatible linker. (again, try that
with mark williams) i don't know how much it costs on its own, but at least
atari canada says that they will sell pieces of the dev kit by themselves.

(btw, i really don't like mark williams c. (it comes with atari's developer's
kit.) don't buy it. the only thing good
about it is their manual and their support. otherwise its slow, doesn't
support standard function value returning conventions (pointers are returned
in D0, instead of A0), and their assembler makes life an incredibe pain.
their dri object file converter didn't accept madmac object files, so
you're stuck using their brain dead assembler. yuck!)

-- 
=====Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)           watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac=====
     co-author of QuickST, and the entire line of Quick Shareware!!!!
       "I don't care if I don't win, 'cause I don't care if I fail"
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