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norakomi
msx professional
Berichten: 861 |  Geplaatst: 19 Juni 2005, 21:48 |
SJASM !!!
I have looked a bit at SJASM,
since I was forced by WB-ASS2 to use a cross-assembler,
because my game was getting too big....
Question:
Is this the way to use Sjasm:
I type my assembly file in a wordpad, e.g.
ORG $C000
BEGIN:
LD A,50
CALL $A2
RET
i save this file as: "printa.asm"
then I open DOSPROMPT
I go to the SJASM directory (where "PRINTA.ASM" is also saved)
I type: SJASM -l printa.asm
then the files which are made are:
PRINTA.LST and
PRINTA.OUT
and sjasm tells me Errors: 0
but now what??
how and with what do I play these files ??
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sjoerd
msx addict
Berichten: 450 | Geplaatst: 19 Juni 2005, 22:07 |
db 0feh
dw start
dw end
dw start
org 0c000h
start
ld a,50
call 0a2h
ret
end
Assemble with: sjasm -l printa.asm printa.bin
and you'll get a printa.bin file instead of printa.out |
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BiFi
msx guru
Berichten: 3142 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 07:20 |
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sjoerd
msx addict
Berichten: 450 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 10:31 |
Or try them both  |
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ARTRAG
msx master
Berichten: 1737 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 10:31 |
tniASM does not support macros!!
sjasm, in this moment, is the most evolved
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BiFi
msx guru
Berichten: 3142 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 12:23 |
sjASM has had always many issues when it comes to... bugs... something tniASM hasn't...
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sjoerd
msx addict
Berichten: 450 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 13:12 |
Let's not go there again, OK?  |
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marison
msx lover
Berichten: 98 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 13:21 |
asMSX seems to be a good alternative too:
http://www.robsy.net/asmsx.htm
It's very adapted to MSX enviroment. Statement to format ROMs, for example.
I use M80 from Microsoft. Macros, long sources (I guess my code is 4000+ lines long now), and various other easy to use characteristics. |
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ARTRAG
msx master
Berichten: 1737 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 13:24 |
asMSX does not support MACROS
sorry, for me sjASM is still winning
Actually two o three things need sjASM
1) the use of REPT in macros : it would be very useful for automatic loop unrolling
2) A better documentation of the fake instructions (that I find very useful)
3) The output of the timings in Z80 cycles in the .lst files (it would be very useful for deep optimization)
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msd
msx professional
Berichten: 615 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 13:34 |
Quote:
| sjASM has had always many issues when it comes to... bugs... something tniASM hasn't...
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Yes ofcourse once a bug always a bug? |
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BiFi
msx guru
Berichten: 3142 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 13:35 |
I hardly use macros... and I've released many things already coded without macros... just with an non-buggy asm  |
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BiFi
msx guru
Berichten: 3142 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 13:37 |
Quote:
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| sjASM has had always many issues when it comes to... bugs... something tniASM hasn't...
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Yes ofcourse once a bug always a bug?
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there's still a huge software company troubling with that 'minor' issue and I doubt they will ever lose that image. |
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sjoerd
msx addict
Berichten: 450 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 14:02 |
Image is everything |
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ro
msx guru
Berichten: 2346 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 16:10 |
nope. stick to WB2... it's a complete environment. no need to sub save and assemble just to test and debug. bleeeeeeh. to much time consuming.
Break your code into modules and WB2 will handle it fine. it also save assembly time (no need to re assemble that whole frickin' peace again and again and a....)
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sjoerd
msx addict
Berichten: 450 | Geplaatst: 20 Juni 2005, 16:30 |
Assembly time? Using a cross-compiler and some emulator with debugger is faster than anything on MSX. In my own expierence, of course...
If you think SjASM is slow, there's always SjASMplus which is about 7 times faster |
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