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From: covert@ihuxq.UUCP (covert)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re:  CP/M Assemblers
Message-ID: <411@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 09:58:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 09:58:52 1983
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I have purchased the 2500AD Z-80 Assembler and found it to be useless
for the following reasons:
1)It does not generate a PRN file, but will list the output to the printer.
  This is bad since it wastes a lot of paper and time on printouts that 
  you don't need.
2)It does not generate any type of symbols table file, and therefore will
  not work with ZSID. Also, 2500AD does not provide a replacement for ZSID,
  to be used with their assembler. A good debugger is necessary for assembly
  language program development.
3)The relocatble code output from their assembler is NOT Microsoft format,
  and therefore will NOT work with other software tools (such as the 
  PLINK-II linker/loader). This also means that you can not link their
  assembler output to such programs as BDS-C or any of the Microsoft
  languauges.

	My recommendation is to purchase the Microsoft Macro-80 and Link-80
assembler. It is an excellent Z-80 assembler, and will also assembler 8080
code.
	If there is further interest I will post excerpts from their
	manual.
	
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			richard covert
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