what is the best assembler ?

[rednova]

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

[mongo]

PhxAss.

[hardlink]

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.

[rednova]

Hi:

Thanks for the tip, guys !!!


Rednova

[Piru]

What is the best assembler for amiga ?

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

PhxAss is very good aswell.

[skurk]

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.

[matthey]

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.

[hardlink]

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

[matthey]

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That's outdated.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