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From: ludde@nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SEKA ASSEMBLER (= SOUNDTRACKER)
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.231405.24411@nada.kth.se>
Date: 21 Oct 90 23:14:05 GMT
References: <12663@chaph.usc.edu>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <12663@chaph.usc.edu> wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao) writes:
>
>The story of the SEKA Assembler is the same as the one of the SoundTracker. 
>At first, it was a Commercial program. Amiga hack groups then soon found out
>that it was pretty neat and Fast to use it to write their demos. (instead of 
>using the official (and very slow) assembler). But it had some bugs and 
>lacked some features. It was then up to them to reverse enginner the prg and 
>add the missing feature, fix the bugs, put their names in the prg. 

It still is a commercial program. I don't know about the US, but here you
can go to any computer store carrying Amiga products and buy it for around
$140. A waste of money in my opinion. 
I wouldn't buy one of these "reverse engineered" versions either, even if
they were available for sale. IMHO, the Seka environment would fit better
on a singletasking computer with no window system. 
But many seem to like that environment.

For anyone interested in buying an assembler, I'd rather recommend HiSoft
Devpac or ArgAsm.

-- 
-Erik Lundevall                   ludde@adder.bula.se | ludde@nada.kth.se