Which Assembler?

[pmc/Retro]

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. :-)

[pmc/Retro]

I am American and I have been using Devpac for all my game coding for many years.

I don't think so. Devpac is the de-facto standard for 68k assemblers, even on the Atari. But it was quite expensive at that time.

That's really interesting to me guys - with all the people using AsmOne I've spoken to I thought I must be one of the only guys around still using Devpac.
 
Perhaps, in that case, use of Devpac is less a British thing like I suspected and it's more just that demo coders mainly use AsmOne. Probably for the very reason you gave matthey - expense - when most of the demo guys started coding stuff as teenagers in their bedrooms way back when they would've used whatever was available easiest and cheapest I suppose...

[pmc/Retro]

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.

No worries guy :-) The main thing is to enjoy yourself - just do that to start with and let the journey take you where it will. :-)
 
By the way, if you'd like to try Devpac it's available around online if you know where to look or I can send you a copy. I actually bought it back in the day so I can send you .adf images or real disks, whatever you need. :-)