How do i Compile the .asm files?

Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

Sorry for being soo noob, but i have no clue what to do after i get the code and i put it into teh .asm file. I have Devpac8x and TASM but i don't know what to do with the TASM files or how to use the devpac files. Can someone tell me where to put the files for both TASM and Devpac8x and what cpmmand to use to compile it into a .8xp file?

lafferjm · Posted: 27 Oct 2009 05:59:54 pm Post subject:

http://dragonfire.unitedti.org/asmin28/lesson/day01.html
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Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

That was for .z80 files

Xeno_Cre8or · Posted: 27 Oct 2009 07:51:06 pm Post subject:

Tari · Posted: 27 Oct 2009 08:00:13 pm Post subject:

.z80 is just the customary extension that Sigma used. It's functionally identical to .asm- it's just a stylistic choice of whoever created the file.
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Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

Wut? But the bat file specifies %1.z80 file, how is it going to find %1.asm?

Also, can you give an example of the usage of devpax8x? The bat file doesn't seem to work, it makes the bin file, then it fails to convert it for some reason, then when cleaning up it deletes the bin file. I created the bin file using the command in the bat file but now i cant figure out how to get it into a .8xp file using devpac8x, the command in teh bat file doesn't work.

KermMartian · Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:19:00 pm Post subject:

%1 refers to the 1st argument to the batch script (such as myfile.bat input.asm, in which case %1="input" and %1.z80="input.z80"). You can of course have %2 for the 2nd argument, %3 for the 3rd, etc. It replaces %1 with the string before calling another program.
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Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

Exactly, so it would call for ex. porcelain.z80 when there is only a porcelain.asm file. I don't get it, but it works, or at least teh irst part does.

The conversion from bin to .8xp is broken. It just doesn't work. Says file not found. I even copied the syntax from the bat file and made a new bat file to finish teh conversion but it doesn't work:

I have porcelain.bin in C:\Asm\Tasm
i have all the needed files in C:\Asm\Tasm
the finish.bat has this:

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Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

Well, i already got it to work and spit out a .bin file, but the 2nd step is broken, if you read my previus response, and i have no clue how to get the bin file to a 8xp file, in a way that works.

Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

w8 wasn't there something about brass or something or another way i could do it?
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KermMartian · Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:04:36 pm Post subject:

Xeno_Cre8or · Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:06:30 pm Post subject:

Hey! similar problem, Wappsign turns an unfilled .hex file into a filled .hex file, when I need a .8xk file.

Edit: This is a BasicBuilder App I'm making, compressing CA-Pack into a 16k app instead of 2 progs at 17k and 11k respectively.
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Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

Look, i went to cmd and cd'ed the dir that devpax8x was in + tasm + the bin file and i ran it just like it says its supposed to be used:

KermMartian · Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:34:18 pm Post subject:

Interesting, I have a question and a suggestion. The question: what OS version (Windows XP? Vista? 7?) and what bitness (32 or 64?) are you running? The suggestion: name is in 8+3 form, in other words, try renaming your bin file to porcel.bin, then devpac8x porcel, and see what happens. I think it requires filenames to be <=8 characters, because I believe it uses the filename as the name of the resultant program.
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Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

I use xp XD Very Happy

32 bit,

KermMartian · Posted: 30 Oct 2009 07:47:38 am Post subject:

I usually make mine by hand, although with a bit of tweaking I've gotten some very decent songs out of the converter. Sorry to disappoint you about it; I was actually considering adding built-in drums to mobileTunes and perhaps making a few other tweaks. Any thoughts?
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Stephen · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 16

Yeah, drums would be a definate plus, not sure how you could implement that or have the convertor detect that though. Have you heard Porcelain by Moby? You think its a doable song? I COULD get my entire school hooked on this program if there were good songs for it. I already got it so that roughly 7/22 people in my class are playing calculator games at the same time, people would be all over the music player.
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teh == the
thta == that
my isp == jerk

KermMartian · Posted: 25 Nov 2009 06:30:00 am Post subject:

There's a vague possibility that mobileTunes 4 might exist at some point. I've been listening to a lot of chiptunes using the Linux program mikmod, and I've been getting a good idea of some of the musical features possible (crescendo and decrescendo, percussion via timed triggering of a predefined sample, pitch bending, etc) and think some of them might be feasible for addition into mobileTunes. I'll see where I can find the time from; currently Doors CS 7, mobileTunes, and MGame are pending on my calculator program queue.
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