Conference 7.286::atarist

I wrote a 68000 disassembler as part of a (unfinished) debugger. Does everything
but analyze the register list on a MOVEM (I got bored with it).
Input is a pointer to instruction and pointer to buffer, output is ascii in 
buffer. Written in GST Assembler.

Dave.

Motorola's public domain MC68000 debugger, including an iline
disassembler, is in PRNSYS::RELEASED_TOOLS:[NEW68000].  It's all in C,
but using the Sozobon compiler on VMS (RELEASED_TOOLS:[SOZOBON]), you
can turn it all into uncommented assembeler.

    The German magazin c't once published such a beast (for the ST). It is
    just a hex dump of half a page, to get source you have to disassemble
    it using itself.
    I'll look up the issue at home.

    The disassembler I mentioned in .3 was printed in issue 6/1986 of c't
    magazine, which mysteriously disappeared from my bookshelf. Issue
    3/1988 contains a hex dump of it, but without any comments in the
    article.
    Heise Verlag (editors of c't) sends copies of single articles for DM 5
    to anyone who need one of a back issue, see the magazine or send mail
    to me for more info.
    
    Jens

    
    Hi Jens,
    
    Talking about the C'T magazine, and the very good constructional
    articles in it for the ST, I was wondering if it would be possible for
    you or some kind person who reads it regularly to compile a brief index
    of interesting articles, so us unfortunates who dont, (or can not) obtain
    it regularly, could order articles of special interest direct from Heisse
    Verlag.
    
    I think we can handle the translation OK, I have ordered PCB's from
    Heisse for the IBM hard disk interface, and software for the Screen
    expander, but I feel that we are missing a lot of good stuff. There are
    NO equivalent techie magazines for the ST in the UK. THey are mostly
    games blasters reviews, although ST world used to have some good
    serious articles, its now been taken over by one of the games mags so I
    do not hold out much hope for it in the future.
    
    Cheers for now
    
    Pat Keane.

    re: the last replies

    Thank you all, I received an offer for source in assembly offline.

    I missed the mentioned c't mag because I have been regularily reading this
    magazine since about mid 87. I will try to get a photo copy of the
    article though.

    c't is in my opinion the best general magazine that exist in Europe. It
    covers all operating systems from MSDOS to AtariST to Amiga to ... and
    yet even Macintosh  articles appear. They also  cover any languages
    available, assembly, pascal, c, sometimes fortran, basic, prolog,
    lisp... The range of the articles span from basic tutorials to
    introduction to Simula, from simple tips-and-tricks to a full powered
    autorouter for the electronic engineer. Lots of general articles about
    algorithmns, architecture, models etc., and software and hardware projects.
    Since January they also include selected articles from the US Byte
    magazine.
    The latest issue covers the following topics (you get 520 pages for
    8.50 DM, that's about $5 or so)
	- Main topic: OCR Optical Character Recognition. Lots of articles
    giving basic information about what it is, today's state of OCR,
    principles of OCR, listing for an OCR program in Omikron Basic for the
    ST, extensive test reports for 7 OCR products.
	- Introduction to Simula, test report of the Simula implementation for
    MSDOS
	- all about the Amiga bus system
	- part 2 of the autorouter project
	- ...lots of other interesting articles I cannot recall at the
    moment (the magazine is at home)

    Other important fact: out of the 520 pages only about 1/3 is commercial
    advertisements. So you get about 300 pages of edited information.


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