Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: manx as examples (really "A68k") Message-ID: <2368@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 19 Dec 88 21:38:37 GMT References: <2036@van-bc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 27 In article <2036@van-bc.UUCP> lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) writes: >In <3237@ingr.UUCP>, crooks@ingr.UUCP (Steve Crooks) writes: >> I am attempting to learn how to program my 2000 with assembly language. >> The assembler that I have is Manx AS v3.6 (and I can't afford to buy a >> different one). ... > >There is at least one good assembler that is freely distributable, from Charlie >Gibbs. It's A68K, and has shown up on a few Fish Disks, CIS, etc. Latest >version is 2.3 or so, but anything over about 1.5 is fine. The most recent version I have is 1.2 (July 11 1988). You most definitely want this version. Versions prior to this had some subtle and sometimes biting bugs. One time I caught an older version applying one section's offsets to a different section (this may have been partly caused by my misuse of the "section" directive). There are also certain constructs, such as #")" that earlier versions will flag as illegal. I am willing to put 1.2 up for anonymous FTP here at Rice if there is sufficient interest. We also have an archive server, so it would be available to non-Internet sites as well. I have been using version 1.2 for awhile now and am very happy with it. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University