First let me say these things tend to be determined by personal preferences. There are two main “schools” for Z80 coding. Intel and Zilog. I actually prefer the Zilog format it is more consistent and easier to figure out. However Microsoft and Digital Research went with the 8080/Intel formats. For Zilog I tried many over the years. I now use all the time the SLR Z80 Assembler. You can download it from a link here. http://s100computers.com/Software%20Folder/Assembler%20Collection/Assembler%20Collection.htm For the Intel style I use the Digital Research MAC assembler. It’s a real pain having to remember the Z80 unique macros. Have to look each one up each time when I need them! But if you are doing any kind of BIOS you almost have to use it. As I describe on the web site, for me the quickest/easiest way to do things is to use Visual C as the editor, Assemble in the Altair simulator (a batch file copies the code across, assembles, and puts the result back in your windows folder -- all almost instantly). You then transfer the resulting hex, com, whatever code, over to your S-100 machine. See here for more info:- http://s100computers.com/Software%20Folder/Altair%20Simmulator/Altair%20Software.htm BTW, on the latter, for MSDOS/8086 programs built into the latest versions of our 8086 monitor is a command to suck code up directly from the PC and place it anywhere in the 1MG address space. Unfortunately not enough room in the Master.Z80 monitor for this. John From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ants Pants Hi Guys, so.. after allot of downloading compilers and programs that will (if im lucky) spit me out a .hex of .bin and allot of chasing my own tail, ive decided to ask all of YOU what you use to develop Z80 code, i know of the Altair simulator and accompanying cpm3 environment with z80asm (as explained on Johns s100computers site) but it seems that the N8VEM code is written to a different syntax (which makes porting parts of code tedious).. what compiler is sued for the N8VEM? what compiler is most user friendly, i myself work on a Windows7 machine so finding something that will run on that platform and that i dont have to spend allot of time transferring source between programs and even different systems to get to a final image i can program to a rom device is a big factor for me.. what is the CURRENT consensus on good solution to the time-old problem of finding a suitable compiler. Regards, Antony -- |