It works excellently. I'll start working on the routines for my first Channel F demo, then... hopefully this won't be too ridiculously hard. kevin On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:40:27 +0200, Thomas Mathys <mathys66@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Couldn't one just use the .byte DASM directive in the place of .db? > >They look like the same thing... I know it'd break compatibility > >between DASM and f8tool but... it's the conventional way of working > >with byte of raw data for Atari programmers, and it works just the > >same. > > oh, you still can use them, it's not like they're gone away. personally > i'll be happy about db and the likes, since as an old turbo assembler and > nasm user i still occasionally try to use them. dasm supports already 9 or > so data definition directives, so another 3 won't hurt =) > > i sent a mail yesterday that contained dasm as an attachment, but > apparently it didn't get through: > www.zhwin.ch/~mathytho/dasm.zip > the archive contains dasm and lights.asm, modified to assemble with dasm > (see at the top of the file for changes that were necessary). > > there are a few minor things i'd like to fix, but basically it's now useable. > (dasm's expression evaluator is a bit broken. it doesn't allow parentheses > in expressions that are part of a mnemonic, since parentheses denote > indirect addressing on the 6502. i can fix that at least for the f8) > > cheers > thomas > >