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In <3237@ingr.UUCP>, crooks@ingr.UUCP (Steve Crooks) writes:
> I am attempting to learn how to program my 2000 with assembly language. 
> The assembler that I have is Manx AS v3.6 (and I can't afford to buy a
> different one).  ...

There is at least one good assembler that is freely distributable, from Charlie
Gibbs. It's A68K, and has shown up on a few Fish Disks, CIS, etc. Latest
version is 2.3 or so, but anything over about 1.5 is fine.

> I have a book on order to teach me more about Amiga assembly, but I want
> to know about the assembler dependent (in this case AS) stuff.  In other
> words, I want to know what I have to do to get a program to compile and
> run.

Charlie's A68K is quite well documented.

Manx puts out a pretty good assembler, but it really sin't meant to do work in
assembly, and is more for the compiler to use. It defaults to using (A4)
addressing, and that will bite you badly unless you use their startup code too.
Charlie's is Metacomco and Manx compatible.

-larry

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