Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury!chem194
From: chem194@canterbury (John Davis, programmer at large, chemistry department)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Assembly Language
Message-ID: <1990Oct28.122933.9545@canterbury>
Date: 27 Oct 90 23:29:33 GMT
References: <1990Oct26.233149.8978@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.tech
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> 	I need pointers on a good assembly language compiler-linker
> package for the Amiga. I was an avid Z80 assembly language person
> back in the 8 bit CPU days - I really like it. Any available that
> generate PRN like files that Microsoft's M80 compiler produced?

well, my favoured system is Hisoft's DevPac. It comprises both a
commandline driven assembler, a _reasonable_ front end editor, and
quite a nice machine code monitor. It's fast, and best of all the 
editor/assembler/monitor integrate nicely so that from within the
editor you can do an assemble to memory, then jump to the debugger
all with two keystrokes.

It will output either Blinklable files, or executable code.

The only real problem at the moment is lack of 010/020/030 support -
they're working on this for DevPac Professional,which shouldn't be
too far away hopefully.

Of course, if you don't want the editor or the debugger, there's always
A68k, which is pd and quite reasonable.

> 
> 						Thanks, Jeff
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jeff S. Dickson				jdickson@zook.jpl.nasa.gov