SNASM68K trouble... (solved)

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:51 pm

No matter what I do I get this !!! And only with CA !!! I checked all the ASM files and these weren't messed up, and the program is not messed up either (I had an HDD issue which caused my some messed up files - BIOS doesn't support HDDs over 139GB and I have 250GB HDD, and a software solution to come over the limit... but Win98SE doesn't use it).

Ignore the last line, it is put there by my time stamp proggy...

Any ideas ?

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:19 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault

welcome to the world of DOS memory management.

(told you it was bad)

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:27 pm

Thing is that when I've got page fault with some other soft, it was caused by too little memory (or crashing the program on purpose), and appeared only once, but in this case it happens whenever I try to assemble... other copies of SNASM68K in other locations of my SMD directory work fine...

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:56 pm

Make sure the directory it's in doesn't have any spaces.

Also, didn't you say you were using the NT version of SNASM? That's really not a smart idea. That's 32-bit vs 16-bit. Windows 9X command line is 16-bit, as it doesn't have CMD.EXE, which is a 32-bit "console".

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:13 pm

After seeing if XP version works (and it gave even bigger error), I started to comment every single line and finally: Problem solved, one graphics file WAS messed up, and it was the problem, now everything assemble perfectly (with both DOS and XP versions of SNASM68K)

evildragon · Post by **evildragon** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:18 pm

im curious if the only change to the NT version of SNASM is just LFN support.. i'll need to see if it truly is a 32-bit executable, it might not be..

but, you said other SNASMs in different directories were working.

Chilly Willy · Post by **Chilly Willy** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:41 pm

SNASM is pretty long in the tooth. It's probably time to retire the old girl.

Use asmx instead. It supports not just the 68000, but also the Z80 and a number of other older CPUs. It also compiles for a number of platforms - I'm using it in 64 bit linux.

http://xi6.com/projects/asmx/

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:46 am

I just need a 200K executable which I can copy anywhere for convenient use