On 3 Mar 2011, at 15:26, Dilwyn Jones wrote: >>> I have just produced my first piece of asm that Gwass turned into a >>> working bin function. >>> (it took only a handful of system crashes, and I haven't even read >>> Norman's series. ;) ) >> Sigh! I knew it was only George and me! ;-) >> >> Cheers, >> Norman. >> > Count me in too! Couldn't have written display_cde and other bits and pieces > without your articles. > > I originally learned from Andy Pennell's books. I still use the old Computer > One assembler despite having planned to learn to use Gwass or Gwasl several > times - lack of time etc (excuses, excuses).
It is usually crazy not to use the available assemblers. My very first assembler coding was done using Andy Pennel's book and POKing the result into RAM. Later I used an assembler provided with the Thor 21. written by Eddy Yeung, who also wrote Workbench. But this assembler had faults which I could not get sorted because Eddy Yeung had gone abroad. I then started using Assembler Workbench, but that too was not satisfactory. For these reasons I reluctantly wrote my own assembler. With prodding from many people GWASS has been continually updated. I must say, though, that I can rarely use it without looking at the manual. Nevertheless I have almost got used to it and would probably not use another assembler. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
