Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-29 Thread Laurens Holst
I replaced '' by ',39,' since Compass doesn't recognize '' as a single '-sign. Our you can do it this way db "a single ' sign" db 'a double " sign ' the openings-sign must also be the ending-sign. so you can use double quots to include single quoted texts and vica versa Yeah

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-27 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:41:08 -0300 (EST), Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: MUST source code No, it's not really so big. And not takes so much time. (-: But it is "compressed", and takes a lot of time, more than normal programs. What

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-25 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 07:59 PM 07/24/99 +0200, you wrote: ??? I doubt this slot/bank-switching will slow down things a lot. Keep in mind that swapping the memory is only nessacary every phat16384/phat bytes... First of all, you have to check very often if a switch is necessary. Only if you assume the source is

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-24 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 02:09 PM 07/23/99 -0300, you wrote: No, it's not really so big. And not takes so much time. (-: But it is "compressed", and takes a lot of time, more than normal programs. What do you mean by "compressed"? Compass is, exept for WBASS, the fastest assembler ever made on MSX. And if they

Re: Re[2]: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-24 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 12:53 AM 07/24/99 +0200, you wrote: And well, the only bad side I can find of Compass is really concerning to speed: in Turbo-R, when sourcecode is placed in a mapper slot other than primary (internal) one, assembling speed decreases a lot, almost to the Z80 speed level. But I suppose this

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-24 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 05:55 PM 07/23/99 +0200, you wrote: 30 SECONDS on a K6-233??? Talking about a lacking optimization... ("bwoa, the people using this program have an P3 500 MHz anyway" standard PC-programmers attitude) This was about an assembler running under an emulator. But still 30 seconds is a lot...

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-24 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 05:01:31 +0200, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: I don't get the idea... How to tokenize ASM? Get an hex editor and you do not even need to assembly it! Tokenizing is the first step of compilation. But if you have an integrated editor + compiler, it's possible to store the source

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-24 Thread Laurens Holst
30 SECONDS on a K6-233??? Talking about a lacking optimization... ("bwoa, the people using this program have an P3 500 MHz anyway" standard PC-programmers attitude) This was about an assembler running under an emulator. But still 30 seconds is a lot... Does this include disk I/O or

Re: Re[2]: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-24 Thread Alex Wulms
] Actually, assembling from and to an external mapper should be faster, if ] Compass itself is located in the internal mapper, since reading the source ] and writing the result doesn't undo the blocks selection. ] When the R800 accesses external memory, either for read or for write, the S1990

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-24 Thread Alex Wulms
] Sincerely, I can't imagine a MSX assembler programmer not using Compass. I have never used compass. Only devpac. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Alex Wulms/XelaSoft - MSX of anders NIX - Linux 4 ever See my homepage for info on the *** XSA *** format http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-23 Thread Laurens Holst
This is nice... But has the backdrop of the speed. And this is not nice. P.E., Must takes almost 30 seconds to compile under my K6-233Mhz... On the MSX... Well... I will not even try. P.E.??? What's that??? 30 SECONDS on a K6-233??? Talking about a lacking optimization... ("bwoa, the people

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-23 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:55:41 +0200, Laurens Holst wrote: This is nice... But has the backdrop of the speed. And this is not nice. P.E., Must takes almost 30 seconds to compile under my K6-233Mhz... On the MSX... Well... I will not even try. P.E.??? What's that??? Per Example. I was talking

Re[2]: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-23 Thread Antonio Nestor Soriano
"Daniel Jorge Caetano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: This is nice... But has the backdrop of the speed. And this is not nice. P.E., Must takes almost 30 seconds to compile under my K6-233Mhz... On the MSX... Well... I will not even try. (!O_o) What are you

Re[2]: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-23 Thread Antonio Nestor Soriano
"Daniel Jorge Caetano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: This is nice... But has the backdrop of the speed. And this is not nice. P.E., Must takes almost 30 seconds to compile under my K6-233Mhz... On the MSX... Well... I will not even try. (!O_o) What are you

Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-22 Thread Antonio Nestor Soriano
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/écrit: Can someone tell me what're the advantages of COMPASS? (OoO) What a question! Programming with Compass is a big pleasure. It is powerful, useful, easy, comfortable... (Hi CTNG! What about my

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-22 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:45:42 +0200, Antonio Nestor Soriano wrote: Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi¢/wrote/kakimashita/escreveu/‚crit: Can someone tell me what're the advantages of COMPASS? (OoO) What a question! Programming with Compass is a big pleasure. It

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-22 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
Anyone think about using COMPASS under PC? (((-: I think Konami Man and CTNG will pray for your soul burn in hell, after this sugestion... XD Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engenharia de Computacao - UNICAMP http://www.adrpage.cjb.net

Re: Compass? The heaven!

1999-07-22 Thread Daniel Jorge Caetano
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:24:16 -0300 (EST), Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote: Anyone think about using COMPASS under PC? (((-: I think Konami Man and CTNG will pray for your soul burn in hell, after this sugestion... XD So I will wait for BrMSX to run Compass and run