Which Assembler?

[jj]

Hi All

I am looking to have a stab at some 68k ASM.  I have a few books on the subject but was wondering which would be the best assembler to use.  Free pref.  Which is the most standard.

Also where would I find info on programming the various custom chips.

[jj]

Thanks all for some opinions and options there.
 
I have not done any assembling or dissasembling for about 17 years or moreand that was Z80 amstrad cpc stuff.  Are all therse options pretty user friendly?

[jj]

Hmm.. interesting. I thought nobody used DevPac any more. Certainly in the Amiga demoscene, Asm-One and Asm-Pro are pretty much "the standard".

 
Where would I get these.  I am guessing they are commercial ?

[jj]

All my demo code is developed in UltraEdit (text editor) on the PC and then I use Devpac v3.18 to assemble on the Amiga.
 
Use of Devpac seems to be a British thing (the makers, Hisoft, were a British company) as, in my experience, mostly British guys use it.
 
Almost all of the European demos coders I talk to use Asm-One.
 
At the end of the day I agree with Joloo - which assembler you use all comes down to personal taste. The code's the important thing - the assembler's just the tool to assemble it...
 
Get the Hardware Reference Manual for learning the Amiga internals. If you'd like to see some source codes that include the boring but necessary stuff like system takeover etc. then check the Coder's Heaven forums on EAB. You'll find a good few of my sources knocking around on there that you're welcome to. You can always PM me questions as well if you like - I'd be happy to help you out. :-)
 
Anyway, I wish you luck JJ - in my opinion, 68k coding is rewarding and fun. :-)

Thanks for the words of support.  I am just looking to have a poke around ( sorry for the pun).  But you never know how far I get into this.  Loved to do all sorts of wierd and wonderful things on the Amsrtrad as had all the manuals for all the chips.

[jj]

Thanks