Re: [stella] DASM - Version 2.20.07 released (MAC)

[Ruffin Bailey <rufbo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Of course DASM can be included in the Mactari download - but I do 
> think this
> is counterproductive.  The latest version is available from the DASM
> homepage at www.atari2600.org/dasm - and unless you plan to always 
> update
> the Mactari tools whenever there's a new DASM, you're going to cause
> problems with versions being out of synch.

That's not a problem.  Look, to use DAsm on the Mac [Classic], you've 
got to go download another tool and a [new] Mac Classic-dasm user needs 
more info anyhow.  You'd want to include a link to the Mactari Tools 
page in the readme for the Mac and you should at least include 
instructions on how to grab MPW if you don't.

Furthermore, distributing different versions of DAsm is already 
happening.  I don't see how taking DAsm *off* the site with Distella 
and Makewav (and, again, instructions for using MPW) for Mac Classic 
really helps anyone.  And that said, I don't think I've missed a DAsm 
update for the Mac yet.  (har har -- this is the first since the one 
that's up on the site now, afaik)

And what's the worst that can happen?  There are still infinite games 
to be made for the Atari with the original DAsm, I believe.  As long as 
Readme's are set up right, everybody's good, I think.  And once they 
check around, they'll find the DAsm site eventually and grab an update.

So at the least, we should update Readme's to point to each other -- 
or, if for some reason you're against that, yours should at least point 
to or, at the absolute least, mention MPW.  We don't want the one extra 
Mac hacker a year to get confused, do we?  :^)

Thanks for your work on DAsm, and hopefully we can get the Mac up to 
date quickly.

Any reason the spaces between flags have been taken out (making the old 
Commando "break")?

Ruffin Bailey

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