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From: stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: assemblers
Keywords: Your favourite, and why?
Message-ID: <246@spcc386.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 10:58:08 GMT
References: <1837@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: stefan@spcc386.UUCP (Stefan Posthuma)
Organization: SPC Company, Heeswijk-Dinther, the Netherlands
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My favourite assembler?

DevPack 2.0 of course (in my opinion the only decent one).
It's fast, it's easy to use and it has a very extensive debugger.

Assembly is two-pass and very quick if you assemble into memory. After
that, you can execute it from memory or debug it with full options like
trace, labels, multiple windows (no GEM windows) etc.

Also, it has full macro and conditional assembly handling and a complete
GEM-call library. It can create GST format object files or its own format.

I mainly use it to create demo screens and no matter how I fool around
in the memory of the ST and no matter how many interrupt vectors I screw
up and no matter how many screen borders I obliterate, it still works fine.

If you are thinking about assembly on the ST, DevPack is perfect.