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2016-02-09 06:03

ChristopherJam

Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409

Assembler preferences.

Two questions:
- what's everyone using these days?
- on large productions, do groups tend to enforce a single assembler for the entire project, or is the code base a bit heterogenous?

I'd like to keep this discussion purely focussed on assemblers; please leave code generators, loader toolchains etc for that other thread.

(as for me, I'm still using xa65 for most projects)

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2016-02-09 18:06

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2244

Quote: Two questions:
- what's everyone using these days?
- on large productions, do groups tend to enforce a single assembler for the entire project, or is the code base a bit heterogenous?

I'd like to keep this discussion purely focussed on assemblers; please leave code generators, loader toolchains etc for that other thread.

(as for me, I'm still using xa65 for most projects)

- ACME
- larger productions: makes things easier if everyone uses the same, but normally someone experienced enough to code for such a production is also skilled enough to press CTRL+H and adjust syntax, e.g. from KickAss to ACME, has become even easier since ACME also accepts +/++/+++/-/--/--- labels

2016-02-09 18:09

ChristopherJam

Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409

Quote: DreamAss and Emacs, but.. Haven't we had this "discussion" already?

Eh, not that recently. Was wondering what current practices are, and the "Coding on a PC for the 64?" thread is way broader in scope than the two questions above.

(and oi, no text editor wars under this topic please!)

2016-02-09 18:17

soci

Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 480

64tass, for a long time now.

2016-02-09 19:02

Fungus

Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 686

64tass

2016-02-09 19:10

DKT

Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 99

I'm Acme user.

So, the results are (up to now):
1st) ACME (37%)
2nd) 64tass (26%)
3rd) KickAssembler and ca65 (11%)

;-)

2016-02-09 19:15

MagerValp

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1078

ca65