Tasm vs Dasm assembler question

[+Cafeman]

When I coded 5200 Koffi, I often used this neat little expression:

 

lda #<DLIRoutine

sta VDLI

lda #>DLIRoutine

sta VDLI+1

 

It seems that Tasm doesn't support this feature. So my question -- does anyone know how to do the same thing in Tasm? Adv II's code is already customized for Tasm and I've been trying to stick to using Tasm.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

When I coded 5200 Koffi, I often used this neat little expression:  

 

lda #<DLIRoutine

sta VDLI

lda #>DLIRoutine

sta VDLI+1

 

It seems that Tasm doesn't support this feature.  So my question -- does anyone know how to do the same thing in Tasm? Adv II's code is already customized for Tasm and I've been trying to stick to using Tasm.

 

When I ported Gunfight to TASM, I did it like this:

 

; Macros

#DEFINE  LO(x)    (x & 255)

#DEFINE  HI(x)    (x >> 8)



LDA #LO(DLIRoutine)

STA VDLI

LDA #HI(DLIRoutine)

STA VDLI+1

 

But TASM sucks in sooo many ways...

You'll need to write macros for any single absolute zeropage addressing mode as well, for example DASMs

 

STA.w

 

has to be replaced with

 

; Macros

#DEFINE  STAW(x)  ($8D, x, $00)


; Code

.byte               STAW(somezeropagelocation)

 

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[+Cafeman]

Thanks!