First amiga assembler

Estrayk · 30 September 2015, 22:59

Hello coders, I´ve a question for the oldschool members. (its for a work)

Anyone knows which was the first assembler on Amiga?

A68K ? Digital Research Assembler ? Metacomco Macro Assembler ?
OMA ? Seka Assembler?

thanks.

NorthWay · 01 October 2015, 02:04

I don't know. (No, that's not what you wanted to know.)

Define "first". For first commercial I would guess Metacomco.
However, Amiga Inc must have used some kind of assembler during bringup and it was probably running on the SAGE machines. They have infamously used the Greenhills C compiler, so perhaps that company also had an assembler - if it produced intermediary assembler code then they had at least a rudimentary one, though perhaps not a fully fleshed one.

kneehighspy · 02 October 2015, 05:52

i wanna say a68k or metacompco were the first. but at almost 47 yrs old, memory doesnt serve me well.

Photon · 02 October 2015, 09:31

Seka was early, but the first should be some US command line assembler feels like

Leffmann · 02 October 2015, 11:49

First one to output Amiga programs was probably part of the early cross-tools, see the disks at the bottom of the gallery:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1024428...elopmentSystem

I'm also guessing that Metacomco Macro Assembler was the first one to run directly on the Amiga.

30 September 2015, 22:59	#1
Estrayk Registered User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Spain Posts: 511	First amiga assembler Hello coders, I´ve a question for the oldschool members. (its for a work) Anyone knows which was the first assembler on Amiga? A68K ? Digital Research Assembler ? Metacomco Macro Assembler ? OMA ? Seka Assembler? thanks.

01 October 2015, 02:04	#2
NorthWay Registered User Join Date: May 2013 Location: Grimstad / Norway Posts: 839	I don't know. (No, that's not what you wanted to know.) Define "first". For first commercial I would guess Metacomco. However, Amiga Inc must have used some kind of assembler during bringup and it was probably running on the SAGE machines. They have infamously used the Greenhills C compiler, so perhaps that company also had an assembler - if it produced intermediary assembler code then they had at least a rudimentary one, though perhaps not a fully fleshed one. Last edited by NorthWay; 01 October 2015 at 02:04. Reason: wording

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02 October 2015, 05:52	#3
kneehighspy Registered User Join Date: May 2015 Location: cerulean / usa Posts: 75	i wanna say a68k or metacompco were the first. but at almost 47 yrs old, memory doesnt serve me well.

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Leffmann Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,269	First one to output Amiga programs was probably part of the early cross-tools, see the disks at the bottom of the gallery: https://picasaweb.google.com/1024428...elopmentSystem I'm also guessing that Metacomco Macro Assembler was the first one to run directly on the Amiga.

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