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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: manx as examples
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Date: 20 Dec 88 16:41:16 GMT
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In article <390@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
>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.
>
>However, it requires amiga.lib (if you want to do Amiga stuff).  Since
>this is not available without spending money....
>I'm still looking for amiga.lib.  Does anyone
>know the cheapest, easiest place to get one?

$20 for the developers disk set (available from CATS).  It contains .h and
.i include files (both stripped and unstripped forms), amiga.lib, the
autodocs, and a few other random bits.  You need these disks anyway to get
the include files...  Trying to program without those is pretty much a
waste of time.

>Another drawback, especially since the original poster said he was
>using Manx, is that A68K can be hard to use with the Manx linker.

Since I don't use Manx, I can't comment on how well A68k will work with
the Manx linker or with assembly code produced by the compiler.
Personally, I use BLink.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>