Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!lbl.gov!jnmoyne From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Where do I find the Seka Assembler??? Message-ID: <12571@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 27 Apr 91 17:09:25 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 33 About the K-Seka assembler Believe me, you don't want to use the Seka ... This asm is so lame .. you wouldn't believe it. It's one of the best reason why european demos were (are) so badly programmed (I mean break on a lot of configurations). I don't know about the latest hacked-upgraded versions tho, but you'd really better buy a good commercial product (DevPac for ex.), you'll be able to compile the Seka sources without (or with very little) modifications ... and you'll actually be able to _use_ the asm for your own programs after that. Most of these compilers also have debuggers, and you want to have one of these when you learn asm ! (-: And don't take these source as good examples of programmation, some are, most are good examples of taking over the machine and playing with the hardware registers (which makes them very hard to understand if you don't know a good deal about the machine's hardware). I would say, you should be an experienced programmer before you play with these, otherwise you're gonna take bad habbits. But of course, it's allways more fun to modify a program doing nice colorfull fancy scrollings than opening a window to print "Hello World" when you start learning, and it's more impressive for your friends too ... (-: JNM --- #include JNM: jnmoyne@lbl.gov - The postmaster allways pings twice (soon in your mailbox!)