Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a218
From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Assemblers
Message-ID: <4946@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 13:40:50 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Lines: 28

In article <39635@cup.portal.com> Peter_Warren_Lee@cup.portal.com writes:

>I'm trying to get started programming is assembly language on the Amiga
>and need some advice on what assembler to buy. I tried A68K but can't
>seem to get anything useful out of it. It will create the .o file but
>how do you turn it into an executable file? Is there anyone out there
>that uses A68K regularly that can point me in the right direction?
>Thanks,
>                                   Pete

     I guess you could call me a regular A68k user - I wrote it.  :-)
Anyway, you need a linker, not just for A68k but for any other assembler
or native code compiler (except, I hear, for AssemPro).  Look for an
older version of Blink - the latest versions are commercial products
and belong to SAS, but version 6.7 was freely distributable and works
quite well.  It's included, among other places, with Matt Dillon's
DICE package if I remember correctly.

     BTW I've finally taken the time to work on another version of
A68k.  (Still no time for 68020/030/881/xxx support, sorry.)
Version 2.70 is undergoing beta testing as I speak; it incorporates
most of the bug fixes and enhancement requests that I've received
over the past year.  When I get the new version working to my
satisfaction I'll send it to Fred Fish as well as making it
available to anyone who wants to send me a disk.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
Elevator music brings me down.