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Title: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: rednova on March 19, 2010, 02:19:10 PM

Dear Friends:

What is the best assembler for amiga ?
So I can learn assembly and to code my trainers ?
Are the assemblers on aminet any good ?
@Piru : any tips ?

Thanks !!!

Rednova

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: mongo on March 19, 2010, 02:25:37 PM

PhxAss.

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: hardlink on March 19, 2010, 02:28:05 PM

I have most of the commercial ones, legal and with manuals evan, but I still tend to come back to PhxAss, which is on Aminet. Not an IDE, just an old-school command line program.

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: rednova on March 19, 2010, 02:33:04 PM

Hi:

Thanks for the tip, guys !!!


Rednova

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: Piru on March 19, 2010, 02:44:18 PM

Quote from: rednova;548463

What is the best assembler for amiga ?

Back in the day I used DevPac's assembler GenAm (commercial).

PhxAss is very good aswell.

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: skurk on March 19, 2010, 02:49:14 PM

I'm recommending AsmPro instead.  It's an integrated environment containing most tools you'll probably need - assembler, debugger, editor, hex editor, etc..

As for learning assembler, just ask.  We are a few assembly coders here.

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: matthey on March 19, 2010, 03:24:37 PM

Vasm also by Frank Wille the author of PhxAss! Get the AmigaGuide docs for PhxAss though. Vasm has less bugs and is more forgiving. The only reason to use PhxAss anymore is if you don't have a lot of memory. The only other assembler to consider is AsmOne with it's full programming enviroment (but some bugs and bit dated interface). Personally, I use vasm, CygnesEd + ARexx, BDebug (by Ralph Schmidt in Barfly package on Aminet) etc.

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: hardlink on March 19, 2010, 03:52:28 PM

Quote from: matthey;548490

Vasm also by Frank Wille the author of PhxAss!

Thanks for the tip!
Also, this subject comes up regularly, here's a thread from last summer with many of the same suspects and more info:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48308

Title: Re: what is the best assembler ?
Post by: matthey on March 19, 2010, 07:02:10 PM

@hardlink
That's outdated. We have vasm v1.4e instead of v1.4a :). Notice that only 1 assembler is being bugfixed and supported.