Hi all,

I'm trying to pickup the good old habit of MSX programming once more !
However this time i want to use my pc and an emulator for faster developing. I have all my sources in Compass and i was wondering which z80 compiler on PC can use my sources from Compass 1:1 .

I already tried Sjasm but that takes too much time converting my sources into something compilable. Which compiler takes my sources 'as is' and compiles them !?

Or which compiler do you use ?

Thanks !

Antal

It mostly depends on the format you use for hexadecimal and binary notation. Using the same method as Basic (&B and &H) will most likely need conversion anyway as cross assemblers don't have support for them. Also any macro's may differ between assemblers. All in all converting any source to something compilable is necessary, whether it's written in/for Compass, Macro80, Gen80, WB-Ass 2 or any other assembler, especially from an MSX assembler to a cross assembler capable of compiling to Z80 code.

Good to see you back in action, Antal! I still like Construction Craze and Rick Dangerous quite a lot!

IIRC it's not easy to convert Compass source code to other assemblers, though... maybe you could run Compass on an MSX Emulator like NLMSX or openMSX and boost the speed of emulation?

hehe.. never tought you would remeber me...

Yeah.. we still have these idea's floating around of making just one new game before we turn 40.. LOL

Too bad our DOME (Dune clone) never finished.. i'll put the beta online here if i can ?!

Antal

(ps. Emulation Compass is an idea, but i'd like to work with Interdev or something.. gives me more control on the sources and directories etc.etc.) Maybe even an CVS or SourceSafe option..

If you like you can send the beta of DOME to downloads@msx.org, I'll add it to the downloads database.

Hmm.. indeed, under those circumstances Emulating Compass is not really an option

I was thinking of adding a (tokenized) Compass and WBASS2 convertor to tniASM...
But that'll have to wait for next version.

hehe i want it now

That would be really nice ! Which compiler on the pc would you say compiles my Compass sources (incl. macros) with the least manual changes ?

thx!

GEN80 under a CP/M emulator I guess

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IIRC it's not easy to convert Compass source code to other assemblers, though... maybe you could run Compass on an MSX Emulator like NLMSX or openMSX and boost the speed of emulation?

My way of working is under Linux using openMSX with ide harddisk emulation (for MSX-DOS2, Compass,dd-graph, etc etc), and then have my sources in ASCII in a (linux-)directory, I then use vim to edit my sources and I can use a local CVS on them :-)

By using openMSX and the dir-as-disk feature on my source directory, compass reads from the "emulated disk", and everytime I save the code again from vim, compass can immediately re-read the source. To get maximum speed I turn throttle off for the emulator.
IMPORTANT: Do NOT write to the emulated disk! since most writes are put in a hidden file as a 'changed sectors cache'. OK, this is not true if you keep the same filesize&filename ( when working with GE5 files for instance :-) in such case the changes are immediately visible in the original file as well.

Using a loopback mount on a dsk image could cause sync/flush troubles in between the linux filesystem, and the disk image that openmsx uses thus corrupting the diskimages FAT/directory-entries. In such case you should eject the disk from openmsx before the loopback mount, and umount before inserting the diskimage again.

rgds,

David

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... I then use vim to edit my sources and I can use a local CVS on them :-)

Or you can use xemacs!

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IMPORTANT: Do NOT write to the emulated disk! since most writes are put in a hidden file as a 'changed sectors cache'. OK, this is not true if you keep the same filesize&filename ( when working with GE5 files for instance :-) in such case the changes are immediately visible in the original file as well.

Maybe it's a good idea to add an extra that mounts the directory as read only to prevent accidents?

Well i guess without making use of an emulator i'm stuck of converting everything by hand. Currently i use Sjasm but i've also read on this forum about gen80. Which one do you guys use and or is your favorite ?

Thanks, hopefully you'll be seeing some results soon..

Look at the frontpage poll to find out.