Re: A82: Assembly programmers? where?
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Re: A82: Assembly programmers? where?
BASIC and ASM are too different to make a converter. Most of the functions
found in BASIC can not be used in ASM, and some of the functions which makes
ASM so good can not be used in basic. Alot of people like you program most
of their BASIC games in school (andi did too before i started asm), when you
are programming in asm that is just not possilbe (or at least not a good
idea). This is why people from time to time suggest an assembler which you
can run on tour calc, so you can write and test asm programs on your calc.
The problem with this is that you ofthen crash your calc when you are
programing in asm, and every time the calc crashed you would lose all your
work if you where writing the program on the calc. In BASIC all errors are
handled by the error handler, but this will not work with ASM because of the
type of errors you normally make. So i can not see anyway to make it
possible to make ASM programs on your calc, with it taking up too much extra
time.
Dines
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry G Currie <larry1492@juno.com>
To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: 8. november 1997 04:51
Subject: Re: A82: Assembly programmers? where?
>I am hoping to write ASM programs. I just downloaded the ASH School
>info two days ago, and hope to learn it quickly. I, for one, joined this
>list so that I could learn more about ASM82 and hopefully write programs.
> In the meantime, I am squeezing every millisecond out of basic that I
>can. If someone ever wrote a BASIC to ASM converter, many more people
>would be programming in less time (don't mention HAL). I never wrote
>over 1% of any basic program out of school. Now with ASM, I need to be
>in front of a computer. It takes so much more time. But if someone made
>a BASIC=>ASM Converter...
>-Larry C
>Larry1492@juno.com
>
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