[stella] Re: bitching about DASM

Subject: [stella] Re: bitching about DASM
From: "Andrew Davie" <adavie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 22:50:07 +1000
>Hehe, o.k. here's a silly question, have you read the documentation? :)
>Use the -v3 flag, it will show all undefined labels.

OK, I was using -v2 - I guess I didn't read the docs well enough.
I did, however, read them.  Not well enough.
Seems to me that I can't access the repeat counter when using a repeat loop.
eg: this would be the format in assemblers I've used before

    loop a 30
    {
        db @a
    }

That would create a 30 byte table, with entries 0,1,2,3,4... etc
Seems the current assembler will let you loop, but not access the iteration
count.
Or, maybe I should go study the docs a bit more.   I think I'll do that.
Once bitten, twice shy.

>>There
>>are many, many things I would like to do, but cannot... this assembler
does
>>not support them.
>
>I bet that it does them, but you just aren't aware of the fact.  Version
2.12
>is more robust also.


Quite possibly so.

Interested in how others have their setup configured.  I how have mine all
hooked into MS visual developer studio.  I get all the benefits of my
favourite editor, and just hit F7 to assemble.  Total turnaround (make a
change, assemble, see it in the emulator) just under a second.  Neat :)

Only problems are I have to run PCAE in a separate window on screen, as it
won't fire up as a subtask from the IDE.  Strange - but then PCAE is a bit
weird, too.  That one won't run anything unless its the sole instance of
itself.

I'll play around with -v3 and revise my opinion if warranted.

Cheers
A


--
Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/
Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html

Current Thread