Brass - 1.0.5.3 update [06/02/2014]

[benryves]

You can download a new version with a bugfix if you need to define single-character constants.

[Timendus]

You rule!

[Timendus]

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cp '\n'

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Error: Could not parse expression ''' (Could not find any recognizable digits.). [current_api.inc:2428]

[benryves]

Oh bollocks. This appears to be a more major bug than I thought (it's splitting the line around the \ incorrectly, like TASM's weird "ld a,44 \ cp b" syntax, which is why it thinks that ' is the character constant, not '\n').
As a workaround, you can do this:

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newline = '\n'
; Stuff
	cp newline
; More stuff

...which DOES work (checked in a hex editor).

The triple-' in the error is because it displays the invalid character inside ' (so if it were a, it would display 'a', in this case it displays ''').

[benryves]

Argh, I think this is fixed -- http://benryves.com/bin/brass/
It also adds very preliminary multi-page program support, but I haven't had too much of a chance to fully test it.

[Timendus]

I'll give it another try this afternoon

[Guest]

sound like a nice project, this should help ppl for prgming asm a lot. I saw many games that took 5 years to be done while they could have taken less longer in C or BASIC for instance

[threefingeredguy]

Heheh, less longer.

This isn't a C compiler, it is for assembling assembly code.

[benryves]

I'll give it another try this afternoon

Cool. The missing TI-API webring box is because my copy is out of synch with what was the live copy. I'll be rearranging/skinning the manual to make it slightly more usable.

sound like a nice project, this should help ppl for prgming asm a lot. I saw many games that took 5 years to be done while they could have taken less longer in C or BASIC for instance

Brass is a regular assembler... I think you mean Tim's API

[Timendus]

I thought guest posting was disabled?

I'm postponing the testing to tomorrow, I really need to study for my exam tomorrow, even though I don't want to...

[Timendus]

Argh, I think this is fixed

Yup, runs like a charm, as expected

[Jim e]

Well I wanted to code a quick project, sound with volume this time, I decided to use brass since it's a single standalone prog. But why does the file output with the extension BIN when I set it to TI8X, am I forgetting something?

[benryves]

Well I wanted to code a quick project, sound with volume this time, I decided to use brass since it's a single standalone prog. But why does the file output with the extension BIN when I set it to TI8X, am I forgetting something?

It always outputs .bin if you don't specify an extension explicitely. Mainly because it decides the filename/extension right at the beginning of the program, and therefore changing it to .8xp would alter any filename passed in by the user. (Laziness, in other words!)
brass <source> <outfile>.8xp works.
It should be changed, though.

Sound with volume? How do you intend on doing that? PWM?

[Timendus]

Sound with volume? How do you intend on doing that? PWM?

That wouldn't work... would it?

[Jim e]

Yep, though atm it's only playing note A4, but I got a pretty full vulume spectrum. Hopefully I could get some 8bit PCM audio going, really show my nerdiness as I listen to my calc music player.


Edit: I just tried .defpage and .page, didn't work even with your example.