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From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: RESOURCE review wanted.
Message-ID: <5503.tnews@tower.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 6 Jun 91 10:25:03 GMT
References: <2077@kuling.UUCP>
Organization: Amiga Virus Extermination Services, NZAmigaUG
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Comment-To: marten@kuling.UUCP (M}rten Norman)

Quoted from <2077@kuling.UUCP> by marten@kuling.UUCP (M}rten Norman):
> I want a cooperating "intelligent" disassembler/assembler packet which has
> a fair ability to disassemble from memory and DOS files into a "source" file
> which I can change a bit (replace "dh0:tomte" with "NICEassign:tomte" i.e.)
> and then compile back into working code again.
> 
> I heard that RESOURCE should be able to do this for me. Am I wrong?
> Othervise I'm interested in someones opinion from using it. Is it working
> fine, is it fairly bugfree and _is_ it worth to buy. (And from where -- at
> the right price...)
> 
RESOURCE has to be the best disassembler of all times. It will
automatically disassemble a program (any program from disk tracks, blocks,
files, memory, etc) and leave you with very little work to do. It will also
do all the jump table instructions from Manx C. You can get it to do a
dummy save and it will tell you of illeagle code, data access, etc which
may be unassembled code. It will handle asscii strings in the file. It has
Base Register support so you can tell it A4 is pointing to a certain area
of the file and any references from A4 will then have labels put in them.
You can generally on small files 80-100K have a source code that will
reassemble in about 30 minutes. It has 68020/30 support but puts out the
new Motorola syntax. The 68000 version will output the old style.
It is available from 
The Puzzle Factory
P.O Box 986
Venetra, OR 97487 USA

or

Glen McDiarmid
28 Marginson Street
Ipswich Queensland
Australia 4305

Hope this helps
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*** John Veldthuis, NZAmigaUG.         johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz       ***