Hi everyone,

I am about to make a second attempt on learning assembly language for my ti-81+ calculator.
But i dont want to boot up windows every time i do asm programming, basically because it sucks 

I got tilem emulator working and now i am in search for a good assembler. On windows I used Latenite IDE with the built-in brass, but i think, this one wont work under Linux. I got spasm compiling using

spasm name.asm name.8xp
and also tried

spasm name.asm name.8xp -DTI83P
as suggested here: http://wikiti.brandonw.net/index.php?title=Programming_cross_z80_calculators

Both files aren't recognized by tilem. the emulator is just stating "Unknown or invalid file format, aborting". It works when using a 8xp-file compiled with brass in windows though.

Can anyone help me with this? I don't have to use spasm, any other assembler with a similar syntax will be just fine, but i dont really want to use wine, a native linux solution would be far superior.

Thanks in advance! (and please excuse my poor English)

First of all thanks for the Welcome. I'm definitely going to introduce myself to the forums.

It turned out, that I downloaded a somewhat strange version of the spasm assembler which didn't want to accept the -DTI83P before listing the input and output files. Now I downloaded it once again, this time from this source:

http://wabbit.codeplex.com/releases/view/45088

I wrote the following example code and compiled it.

#define TI83P
#include "ti83plus.inc"

start:
.org $9D95
.db $BB,$6D
ld a,5
ld b,2
add a,b
ld h,0
ld l,a
bcall(_DispHL)
bcall(_newLine)
ret

Using "spasm -DTI83P name.asm name.8xp" i get :

Pass one...
Pass two...
Done
exporter:-1: warning: First character in name must be a letter.
So it compiles, but in tilem the file does have an empty name and doesn't run as well. Seems to me like there is one more thing missing in my code or in the compiler options I used?! 

It IS working to assemble the source using "spasm -DTI83P name.asm" and then using binpac8x ("./binpac8x.py name.bin") to convert it to a .8xp-file though. I thought devpac/binpac are only needed when using tasm??? What is it good for anyway? some kind of linker?
This solution seems to me like just a workaround. Hopefully someone can tell me how to solve this by just using spasm.

Maybe use the right ti38plus.inc...

http://wabbit.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=SPASM%20Include%20Files&referringTitle=Documentation

Heya and welcome here SomeoneWhoIsntMe

I'm on a Linux machine since 2007 or so, but I use an old build of spasm that works wonderfully.

Mind sharing it? The latest ones do not work ( seg fault either at the end before it writes out, or in pass one ).

I am about to make a second attempt on learning assembly language for my ti-81+ calculator.

TI-81+?

I've been having issues with spasm as well on linux. Buckeye said he was going to look into it but he never got around to it yet.
That version is an old one so you might want to try building from the source. If that doesn't work ( probably wont even build ) then this one you have, it will be able to build the hex files, but not compile them into 8xp's so you need to figure out a way to convert them to an 8xp.

( The reason it's not working is because of some bad code with the exporter when it comes to naming on Linux )

EDIT: just tested the latest svn, it's seg faulting on the first pass, so just stick with what you have for now.

Heh, I might have a build... but my Linux USB HDD crashed... really hard... recently, so I'm not too sure if I can fetch it out.

Have you installed libgmp? I'm not sure if that matters.

The latest version of Spasm compiles the HelloWorld from above, though.