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about devpac lite
« on: September 05, 2010, 02:08:55 AM »
Dear Friends:

I have been thinking lately about learning assembler programming for my amiga.
I was gonna save my money to buy devpac assembler, when I then remembered
I have a free copy of devpac lite assembler, which came as a coverdisk
in amiga shopper. I still got the disk and it seems to work fine.
I just wanna learn assembly for fun on my amiga, so I do not need
the most expensive options, I guess devpac lite is good enough, since is only for fun.
I was thinking about buying the assembly books from software hut.
Will devpac lite be good enough for messing with assembly ?
What do you think ?

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Re: about devpac lite
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 11:02:57 AM »
Hi Rednova, :)

If you'd like to start coding in 68k then I can highly recommend DevPac for the job, I've been using it since the mid 90s and have tried just about all the other assembler progs out there.

Devpac to me is the easiest to use, its not over cluttered with options you don't need and it's a clean & straight forward assembler package for coding in 68k. :)

The DevPac-Lite version that came on the Amiga Shopper Disk (Jan 1995), is fully working it just doesn't contain all the Include files & ready made macros that were on the full package. There was a full version given away once on an Amiga Format Disk, not sure but I think it was a special edition disk no 7 around 1996.

I don't know anywhere you can buy the full package these days, but If you really want the full package just google the net and you'll soon find it. :)

There are also plenty of sites out there where you can download free open source examples of programming in devpac, these are one of best and easiest ways to learn about programming in assembler. :)

Good luck & stick at it if you do decide to give it a go, you won't regret it I reckon. :D
 

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Re: about devpac lite
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 01:08:09 PM »
Phxass is a decent, solid assembler IMHO.
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Re: about devpac lite
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2010, 03:26:23 PM »
I have quite a few books on learning assembler on the Amiga.  Where are you based ?
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Re: about devpac lite
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2010, 03:06:58 AM »
Quote from: Karlos;578184
Phxass is a decent, solid assembler IMHO.

Yes and vasm which is mostly Devpac compatible. The biggest incompatibility is that you can't turn some of the "safe" optimizations and their messages on and off individually like in Devpac.

+ Devpac and PhxAss compatibility modes
+ supports many commands from other assemblers also
+ supports 68000-68060 as well as CPU32 and ColdFire
+ forgiving syntax
+ best ever optimizing assembler for 68k
+ free, updated and supported
- multi-platform design means larger and slower than some Amiga assemblers
- No integrated editor or debugger

Vasm site...

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/

Here is the DevPac 3 manual in PDF (handy with Devpac or vasm)...

http://www.heywheel.com/matthey/Amiga/Devpac3Manual.pdf

I use the debugger, BDebug from the Barfly package...

http://aminet.net/dev/asm/BarflyDisk2_00.lha

For tutorials, head over to Coders Heaven on EAB...

http://eab.abime.net/forumdisplay.php?f=37
« Last Edit: September 08, 2010, 03:11:30 AM by matthey »