TextMate bundle for M68K Assembly

xaind · 02 July 2009, 10:51

I've been working on a simple TextMate bundle for 68000 assembly language, for anyone who, like me, is crazy enough to want to write amiga assembler programs on a Mac

I believe this windows editor is supposed to be able to use these bundles too.

It's my first bundle, and the regexp sytax is a bit different to what I'm used to, so I've almost certainly done a few things wrong. Still, it seems to work fairly well on the source files I've been testing it with.

Global (but not local) labels, macros, and section names are inserted into the symbol list for easy jumping around. Standard 68000 opcodes and registers get syntax highlighting, as well as numeric constants and quoted strings. I've also included a very simple snippet for creating a macro.

Installation should be as simple as unzipping the bundle and double-clicking. If that doesn't work copy the unzipped bundle into your "Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles" folder.

Anyway, if anyone is interested I'd be grateful for any feedback/bug reports/suggestions.

Hope somebody finds it useful.

EDIT - New version available.. see below.

Redwood · 02 July 2009, 10:59

Awesome!

korruptor · 03 July 2009, 16:23

I've been after something like this for ages. You utter star. Many thanks!

frost242 · 09 July 2009, 11:44

Great ! Thanks a lot xaind !

BippyM · 13 July 2009, 13:55

I love the colour scheme. Shame something on the Amiga doesn't have this

Spellcoder · 13 July 2009, 23:34

@xaind: Nice

I did notice however some parts of sources which were incorrectly highlighted. For example I noticed this line causing code after it to be highlighted as comment:

MOVEQ #'\',D1

@bippym: do you mean it's a shame Amiga code/texteditors don't have it? (since AsmPro has syntax highlighting)

BippyM · 13 July 2009, 23:56

No I like the colour scheme/font etc.. Looks cool

xaind · 14 July 2009, 03:58

@Spellcoder: Yeah, that's an annoying problem. I wrote the syntax highlighting to work with PhxAss code, which would consider your line a syntax error because the backslash is used as an escape symbol. For PhxAss you would write your line this way instead:

Code:

MOVEQ #'\\',D1

Of course, Asm-One or AsmPro would consider that to be an error. I guess Asm-One and AsmPro are the more popular assemblers though, so I should probably change it to their syntax.

The documentation I have for Asm-One/Pro is pretty sparse. Does anyone know if it supports any escape sequences inside quoted strings?

@bippym: The font I'm using in the screenshot is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.. available from http://www.gnome.org/fonts/. The colour scheme is one of the standard ones that comes with TextMate.

StingRay · 14 July 2009, 09:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by xaind

The documentation I have for Asm-One/Pro is pretty sparse. Does anyone know if it supports any escape sequences inside quoted strings?

It doesn't.

xaind · 17 July 2009, 10:43

Ok, here's a new version that ignores escape sequences inside quoted strings.

There's also a couple of other tweaks (macros with dots in their names, etc.)

wilshy · 17 July 2009, 11:25

Such a great text editor. If only I know 68k!

kamelito · 05 September 2009, 20:05

Hi,

First thanks for the bundle, what assembler do you use on MAC?
Do you use a native one then start UAE or transfer to a real Amiga, or do you save your file and assemble it under UAE?

kml

Quote:

Originally Posted by xaind

Ok, here's a new version that ignores escape sequences inside quoted strings.

There's also a couple of other tweaks (macros with dots in their names, etc.)

Leffmann · 05 September 2009, 20:35

I can recommend vasm and vlink for use on the Mac, and any system really as it's plain C and fully portable. It also supports Devpac code style, though I would recommend different structure and formatting for easier development.

I have a made a simple but adequate bash tool set for use within the OS X terminal. A script creates a project template which consists of a catalog with a build script and a basic source file. I edit my code and then run the build script which in turn runs the tools and builds the final executable, I then switch to WinUAE (run through Parallels or VirtualBox) and start the program directly from CLI or Workbench.

It's just three key presses from source code to running your program, and the build phase is instant on any modern GHz computer.

kamelito · 05 September 2009, 21:04

Hi

CAN you Share your script?
Why don't you use a native version of UAE? I suppose That the OSX port is less accurate.
How fast is it under émulation?

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leffmann

I can recommend vasm and vlink for use on the Mac, and any system really as it's plain C and fully portable. It also supports Devpac code style, though I would recommend different structure and formatting for easier development.

I have a made a simple but adequate bash tool set for use within the OS X terminal. A script creates a project template which consists of a catalog with a build script and a basic source file. I edit my code and then run the build script which in turn runs the tools and builds the final executable, I then switch to WinUAE (run through Parallels or VirtualBox) and start the program directly from CLI or Workbench.

It's just three key presses from source code to running your program, and the build phase is instant on any modern GHz computer.

Leffmann · 06 September 2009, 01:11

I'm using WinUAE under virtualization because the latest UAE available for OS X is several years old. On my Macbook with a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo I get full speed for the stock A500 and A1200 emulations I use for testing.

Here's my setup as I'm using it. Unzip into your home catalog and make sure the amiga/tools/ catalog is in your path so the tools can be found. On OS X you can make sure this is done every time you open a terminal by editing the file .profile in your home catalog and adding this line:

Code:

export PATH=$PATH:~/amiga/tools/

The sharedhd catalog is used as a directory based harddrive in UAE so I can move files to the emulated Amiga easily.

The code catalog contains projects and a library of tools and some include files. The library is very sparse but works for what I do.

The tools catalog contains vasm, vlink, fixsource and gensintab built for OS X 10.6 64-bit, but source codes are available so you can rebuild these for any system. I can provide these for other systems if you can't build them yourself.

Fixsource is a preprocessor which removes whitespace so you can format your code in a clear readable way without vasm complaining. Gensintab creates sinus tables.

To use the setup in bash you step into the code catalog and run the template script like this:

Code:

sh template test

and it will create a catalog named test, inside there will be a source file named test.s and a build script named build. You step into the catalog and run the script with "sh build" and it will produce the final executable and place it in the sharedhd catalog. If you need additional files or build steps you can just edit this into the build script.

All scripts here are in bash style for Unix like systems and assume that the amiga catalog is placed in your home catalog, but the setup should be easy to convert for use in Windows.

kamelito · 06 September 2009, 20:05

Thanks for sharing, I'll test this setup.
Too bad that UAE on MAC is not updated anymore, I though that E-UAE aim was to bring UAE on others platforms on par with winuae

kamelito · 08 September 2009, 00:17

How about compiling the Linux version and run it under Fink?
Might be not that bad?
kml

kamelito · 08 September 2009, 01:12

I just tried winuae under OS X SL (Macbook 2Gig Intel) in windowed mode using darwine it worked quite well. I should tried a native port to compare though. The sound was not high quality.
kml

korruptor · 20 September 2009, 00:06

Leffman: many thanks for the scripts.

I use the same setup on the mac, but load and compile within AsmPro within WinUAE. Your vasm path sounds well worth a try.

14 May 2012, 00:20

hi. i'm planning to put this in to github and make it opensource bundle for textmate... @xaind is it ok?

02 July 2009, 10:51	#1
xaind Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sydney / Australia Posts: 113	TextMate bundle for M68K Assembly I've been working on a simple TextMate bundle for 68000 assembly language, for anyone who, like me, is crazy enough to want to write amiga assembler programs on a Mac I believe this windows editor is supposed to be able to use these bundles too. It's my first bundle, and the regexp sytax is a bit different to what I'm used to, so I've almost certainly done a few things wrong. Still, it seems to work fairly well on the source files I've been testing it with. Global (but not local) labels, macros, and section names are inserted into the symbol list for easy jumping around. Standard 68000 opcodes and registers get syntax highlighting, as well as numeric constants and quoted strings. I've also included a very simple snippet for creating a macro. Installation should be as simple as unzipping the bundle and double-clicking. If that doesn't work copy the unzipped bundle into your "Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles" folder. Anyway, if anyone is interested I'd be grateful for any feedback/bug reports/suggestions. Hope somebody finds it useful. EDIT - New version available.. see below. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by xaind; 17 July 2009 at 10:40. Reason: New version available

14 July 2009, 03:58	#8
xaind Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sydney / Australia Posts: 113	@Spellcoder: Yeah, that's an annoying problem. I wrote the syntax highlighting to work with PhxAss code, which would consider your line a syntax error because the backslash is used as an escape symbol. For PhxAss you would write your line this way instead: Code: MOVEQ #'\\',D1 Of course, Asm-One or AsmPro would consider that to be an error. I guess Asm-One and AsmPro are the more popular assemblers though, so I should probably change it to their syntax. The documentation I have for Asm-One/Pro is pretty sparse. Does anyone know if it supports any escape sequences inside quoted strings? @bippym: The font I'm using in the screenshot is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.. available from http://www.gnome.org/fonts/. The colour scheme is one of the standard ones that comes with TextMate.

17 July 2009, 10:43	#10
xaind Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sydney / Australia Posts: 113	Ok, here's a new version that ignores escape sequences inside quoted strings. There's also a couple of other tweaks (macros with dots in their names, etc.) Last edited by xaind; 14 May 2012 at 06:56.

06 September 2009, 01:11	#15
Leffmann Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,269	I'm using WinUAE under virtualization because the latest UAE available for OS X is several years old. On my Macbook with a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo I get full speed for the stock A500 and A1200 emulations I use for testing. Here's my setup as I'm using it. Unzip into your home catalog and make sure the amiga/tools/ catalog is in your path so the tools can be found. On OS X you can make sure this is done every time you open a terminal by editing the file .profile in your home catalog and adding this line: Code: export PATH=$PATH:~/amiga/tools/ The sharedhd catalog is used as a directory based harddrive in UAE so I can move files to the emulated Amiga easily. The code catalog contains projects and a library of tools and some include files. The library is very sparse but works for what I do. The tools catalog contains vasm, vlink, fixsource and gensintab built for OS X 10.6 64-bit, but source codes are available so you can rebuild these for any system. I can provide these for other systems if you can't build them yourself. Fixsource is a preprocessor which removes whitespace so you can format your code in a clear readable way without vasm complaining. Gensintab creates sinus tables. To use the setup in bash you step into the code catalog and run the template script like this: Code: sh template test and it will create a catalog named test, inside there will be a source file named test.s and a build script named build. You step into the catalog and run the script with "sh build" and it will produce the final executable and place it in the sharedhd catalog. If you need additional files or build steps you can just edit this into the build script. All scripts here are in bash style for Unix like systems and assume that the amiga catalog is placed in your home catalog, but the setup should be easy to convert for use in Windows. Last edited by Leffmann; 15 March 2012 at 19:02.

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02 July 2009, 10:59	#2
Redwood Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Sydney / Australia Posts: 83	Awesome!

03 July 2009, 16:23	#3
korruptor TDI Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Blitter Town Posts: 124	I've been after something like this for ages. You utter star. Many thanks!

09 July 2009, 11:44	#4
frost242 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: France, 87 Age: 44 Posts: 96	Great ! Thanks a lot xaind !

13 July 2009, 13:55	#5
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	I love the colour scheme. Shame something on the Amiga doesn't have this

13 July 2009, 23:34	#6
Spellcoder Spellcoder Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: The Netherlands Age: 44 Posts: 27	@xaind: Nice I did notice however some parts of sources which were incorrectly highlighted. For example I noticed this line causing code after it to be highlighted as comment: MOVEQ #'\',D1 @bippym: do you mean it's a shame Amiga code/texteditors don't have it? (since AsmPro has syntax highlighting)

13 July 2009, 23:56	#7
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	No I like the colour scheme/font etc.. Looks cool

17 July 2009, 11:25	#11
wilshy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: SouthEast-ish UK Posts: 372	Such a great text editor. If only I know 68k!

05 September 2009, 20:35	#13
Leffmann Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,269	I can recommend vasm and vlink for use on the Mac, and any system really as it's plain C and fully portable. It also supports Devpac code style, though I would recommend different structure and formatting for easier development. I have a made a simple but adequate bash tool set for use within the OS X terminal. A script creates a project template which consists of a catalog with a build script and a basic source file. I edit my code and then run the build script which in turn runs the tools and builds the final executable, I then switch to WinUAE (run through Parallels or VirtualBox) and start the program directly from CLI or Workbench. It's just three key presses from source code to running your program, and the build phase is instant on any modern GHz computer.

06 September 2009, 20:05	#16
kamelito Zone Friend Join Date: May 2006 Location: France Posts: 1,801	Thanks for sharing, I'll test this setup. Too bad that UAE on MAC is not updated anymore, I though that E-UAE aim was to bring UAE on others platforms on par with winuae

08 September 2009, 00:17	#17
kamelito Zone Friend Join Date: May 2006 Location: France Posts: 1,801	How about compiling the Linux version and run it under Fink? Might be not that bad? kml

08 September 2009, 01:12	#18
kamelito Zone Friend Join Date: May 2006 Location: France Posts: 1,801	I just tried winuae under OS X SL (Macbook 2Gig Intel) in windowed mode using darwine it worked quite well. I should tried a native port to compare though. The sound was not high quality. kml

20 September 2009, 00:06	#19
korruptor TDI Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Blitter Town Posts: 124	Leffman: many thanks for the scripts. I use the same setup on the mac, but load and compile within AsmPro within WinUAE. Your vasm path sounds well worth a try.

14 May 2012, 00:20	#20
vigo Posts: n/a	hi. i'm planning to put this in to github and make it opensource bundle for textmate... @xaind is it ok?

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