Lynxer

Yes, that's a good idea Lynxman. If your cart doesn't do it, then that's what I'll do; watch this space! Cheers.

Oh, yes thanks - I missed that for some reason. Shame about Lynxman's cart not being a multigame cart, but good news for game development. Would anyone else on this forum be interested in a true multigame cart? I'm thinking stick all your ROM images and homebrew on a memory card (FAT filesystem, for example) and be able to select and play them on the actual Lynx... Would be pretty cool I think.

Hi Lynxman How many games can it store in one go? I'd really be interested in a single cart that will hold loads of ROM images and homebrew stuff that I can take with me instead of having to lug all my carts around when I take my Lynx anywhere... PS: I prefer to play the original Lynx rather than use an emulator.

If I thought it would be worth ten times the price, say in 10 years' time, I would consider it as an investment. Though what usually happens to me after I've bought something I thought was rare is I find the seller actually has a warehouse full of these "rare" collectables and suddenly everyone else already has one...

Shame, I'd like one for my collection but not at that price. I don't speak german either and drive on the left side of the road (like normal people). Anyone got a ROM image floating around...?

Hi Karri It works! The lyxass you provided reports the same version but is actually a different file from the lyxass I was using. Many thanks for your help.

I don't know what hardware.asm is and it's not *my* code! I'm following the tutorial because, although I am an experienced assembly programmer (with various micros but not 6502) I wanted to learn something about programming for the Lynx. I was hoping I could start with a simple "Hello World" example... I've also tried removing hardware.asm and hallobm2.spr but I still get the syntax errors on the four lines as before. So, perhaps I am using the wrong version of Lyxass, which is what I suspected.. Please tell me what your version of Lyxass is, or perhaps post it if that is allowed?

These are macros which you have to include first. * include macros path "c:\lynx\alles" include <hardware.asm> include "help.mac" Hi sage, thanks for your reply. However, these macros are already referenced (although in a different path) and are present in the c:\lynx\bll\macros directory. The macro definition in the code I am trying to assemble is: * macros path "c:\lynx\bll\macros" include <hardware.asm> include "help.mac" include "if_while.mac" include "font.mac" include "window.mac" include "mikey.mac" include "suzy.mac" include "irq.mac" include "debug.mac" path and the syntax errors still persist... C:\LYNX>lyxass hallo_a.asm hallo_a.asm: 38:ERROR: Syntax Error ! hallo_a.asm: 39:ERROR: Syntax Error ! hallo_a.asm: 41:ERROR: Syntax Error ! hallo_a.asm: 45:ERROR: Syntax Error ! Code-size : 2046 Lines : 3736 Macros expanded : 63 Pass 2 runs : 113 Start-address : $21f0 Memory usage : 1129948 Total Errors :4 No file written ! C:\LYNX> I have attached the entire example to this post. This is identical to Bjoern's original except that I have changed the paths to the resource files as necessary for my installation. Thanks for any further assistance you can offer... perhaps I am too much of a dummy for Bjoern's tutorial..? hallo_a.txt

Hi All I am following Bjoern Spruck's Lynx Programming for Dummies tutorial and I am trying to assemble the "Hello World" example (assembly version) as given in Chapter 4. This example is also provided separately as "hallo_a.asm" in a .zip archive along with the tutorial. I've changed the path references in this source file to match my environment as necessary. However, when I try to use LYXASS to assemble the file, it fails with a Syntax error on lines 38,39 and 41,45. These lines are: - BEGIN_ZP END_ZP BEGIN_MEM END_MEM I am using a command prompt under Windows XP and the command line I am using is: - lyxass hallo_a.asm I think that the problem is that the LYXASS that I am using is the wrong one, it states "tjass/lyxass C-version V0.47". If this is the cause of my problem, please can someone advise where to get a version of lyxass that works with assembly source? Thanks Robin