Re: A83: Re: Re: Assembly-83 Digest V1 #913


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Re: A83: Re: Re: Assembly-83 Digest V1 #913




Quite true, but you have to remember, I had never
actually programmed an asm program at the time I made
it.  All I had was a list of opcodes.

Jimmy

--- David Phillips <david@acz.org> wrote:
> 
> Remember, there is _quite_ a difference between
> simple opcode to bytecode
> translation (ala DOS debug) and an assembler.
> 
> >   Actually I created one in basic that I didn't
> finish
> > entirely.  (Trying to remember, its been 3 years
> > almost) I basically stored everything to a string
> with
> > a nice input routine and stored a : inbetween the
> > commands, and then when you decided to compile it,
> I
> > just checked the string for commands (starts with
> L so
> > go here, check next letter, ect...)  It was slow
> and
> > pretty much sucked parsing wise but it worked for
> a
> > lot of the commands.  It also checked for errors
> and
> > told you what it couldn't compile (unknown
> commands
> > ect...)
> >
> >   I actually wrote this program before I new a
> lick of
> > spit about asm though, so some of my things may
> have
> > been wrong.
> >    I actually didn't release all of it either,
> Later I
> > had created a asm program that took your generated
> > code and stuck it into a program for you to run,
> with
> > the name you wanted, ect...
> >
> >   I thought about making an asm one, hell I even
> > started it but I stopped after I decided that it
> was
> > useless.  One screw up and boom, you have to start
> > over.  (Unless you made a crash protector but
> still
> > implausible for the 83)
> 
> 
> 
> 

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