Suggestions for programs to use on real amiga to code

[nicholas]

The best free C compiler is VBCC

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vbcc/

Annotate is a good free syntax highlighting editor

http://aminet.net/package/text/edit/Annotate_usr

If you want an all in one IDE then there is CubicIDE but it costs.

http://www.softwareandcircuits.com/division/amiga/products/cubic/index.html

For assembly coding there are AsmOne and AsmPro

http://www.theflamearrows.info/documents/ftp.html
http://members.home.nl/m.reestman/asmpro.html

[nicholas]

Perhaps, but probably too slow for 680x0 hardware I tried it a few years ago and it was too slow for even a simple 'Hello world!' program

For 68030, Dice is quite usable speed wise, and perhaps SAS6.58 (which is probably much better than Dice).


Indeed, these are absolutely fantastic for learning 680x0 assembly language.

VBCC is ok my 060 but you are right about SAS/C being better on slower CPU's.  I recently spent a few hours modifying a small tool of mine that compiled with both GCC and VBCC with no problems to compile with SAS/C and it was a real PITA because it doesn't have much in the way of C99 support and I'm lazy.

@OP
I can send you a fully patched copy of SAS/C  6.58 or 7.01 if you PM me your email address.  In fact I can send you pretty much any dev tool you fancy as I have most things knocking around my machines.

[nicholas]

Off topic:


Would you by any change have ALL the dependencies to compile the original Dopus Magellan sources with SASC6? I've tried a few times and failed.

I can have a look for you.

I've never tried to compile it though, what does it need?

[nicholas]

Thanks, but forget I asked. All I really want to do is fix the file and disk sizes for anything greater than 2^32-1. It's not a big deal.

Ok, perhaps you could ask Itix or Kas1e if they have fixed that issue in their GCC port of Magellan? (I think they are working on it, can't remember who else is though.)

[nicholas]

i have a 030/50, but vb is out of the question

vbcc !=vb

[nicholas]

DOH have no idea The fact that I use a all in one solution, like visual studio, totally blind me about what is in fact the actual linker, compiler and so on...I just write code; got a lot to learn

So I think that I will settle for ASM one and devpac as ASM dev tools; while I will have Storm for C++ and SAS/C for regular C.

I am tempted to try blitzbasic, but after learning Assembler thou

So, once I learn, what should I use for ASM? Since the ones that Leffman mentioned are not good for anything other than learning?

This is a good place to start:

http://coppershade.org/

[nicholas]

They would need to choose if they want to start with hardware programming or OS programming. In my opinion it's better to start with the OS. It's easier, especially for things like simple 'Hello world!' programs that you want to start with.

OS coding in assembly is much less fun though.