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This
is all good advice. I would add that there are probably dozens of
assemblers out there each with slightly different syntax requirements.
Most of them can be safely ignored as they are not very good. In many
cases any source code you find will require some editing unless you compile with
the exact same assembler.
A
really good alternative if you don't have or want to use the Visual C editor is
Notepad++. Even if you have and like Visual C I would recommend
checking it out:
It is
free and open source.
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Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:01 AM To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:1907] What Compiler / Assembler are you using for Z80 program development? 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. |