I wanted to find a small niche hobby coding project that approximately nobody would care about.

I'm tooting about it now, and I don't expect you to care.

I want to use m68k-linux-gnu-as cross-assembler, but it doesn't support the Motorola syntax the original Amiga tools did.

How hard can it be to write a preprocessor that converts vasm mot syntax module compatible assembly to GNU as?!

Turns out, less trivial than I thought.

#Amiga #RetroComputing #m68k#Assembly

I wanted to find a small niche hobby coding project that approximately nobody would care about.

I'm tooting about it now, and I don't expect you to care.

I want to use m68k-linux-gnu-as cross-assembler, but it doesn't support the Motorola syntax the original Amiga tools did.

How hard can it be to write a preprocessor that converts vasm mot syntax module compatible assembly to GNU as?!

Turns out, less trivial than I thought.

#Amiga #RetroComputing #m68k#Assembly

This is handy for studying ROMs and binary only programs: a Z80 disassembler that tries to identify string data and labels.

https://github.com/cormacj/z80-smart-disassembler

#z80 #disassembler #assembly

"As with everything, learning is 50% jargon and 50% actual learning." https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons/

#programming #assembly#FFmpeg

Me, looking at the 8008/8080/Z80 instruction sets: "bah, why do you need conditional calls and conditional returns when the conditional jumps are already more than enough?"

Me, coding in 68000: "I really with I had conditional calls and conditional returns, relying on conditional jumps makes the code harder to read than necessary."

I am never happy.

#RetroComputing#Assembly

Me, looking at the 8008/8080/Z80 instruction sets: "bah, why do you need conditional calls and conditional returns when the conditional jumps are already more than enough?"

Me, coding in 68000: "I really with I had conditional calls and conditional returns, relying on conditional jumps makes the code harder to read than necessary."

I am never happy.

#RetroComputing#Assembly

As I don't have any new project in the pipe, I spent my saturday going back to see if I have progressed in #6502 #assembly, and gave a bit of attention to my #Quicktake for #Apple2 JPEG decoder.

I think I progressed: decoding a Quicktake 200 photo now /only/ takes 190 seconds (3 minutes 10), a 25% improvement and a whole minute less than previously!

#RetroComputing

As I don't have any new project in the pipe, I spent my saturday going back to see if I have progressed in #6502 #assembly, and gave a bit of attention to my #Quicktake for #Apple2 JPEG decoder.

I think I progressed: decoding a Quicktake 200 photo now /only/ takes 190 seconds (3 minutes 10), a 25% improvement and a whole minute less than previously!

#RetroComputing

Asm Editor is a web app IDE for learning, developing, and running x86, M68K, RISC-V, and MIPS Assembly code. It features an editor, assembler, and debugger, as well as other tools and learning resources.

https://asm-editor.specy.app

https://github.com/Specy/asm-editor

#x86 #m68k #mips #assembly #riscv

Asm Editor is a web app IDE for learning, developing, and running x86, M68K, RISC-V, and MIPS Assembly code. It features an editor, assembler, and debugger, as well as other tools and learning resources.

https://asm-editor.specy.app

https://github.com/Specy/asm-editor

#x86 #m68k #mips #assembly #riscv

(🇮🇹 Versione in italiano qui sopra ⤴️)

📍La Pigna, Sanremo (IM), Italy
🗓️ 20–24 August 2025

🫶🏻 Scambi is a participatory festival entirely organised by under-30 volunteers, where we share ideas, passions, insights through interactive laboratories and activities on several guiding themes:

• 🌻 Social and Environmental Justice
• 🌱 Degrowth and local/global economy
• 👾 Political Technology and resistance to Technofeudalism–with @dario from @fsfe, @wikimediaitalia, and many others)
• 🧠 Education and learning

🔋 The Program

• August 20 → public events, with labs a live music night featuring @kenobit, Mano Manita, and Dietro l’Angolo.
• August 21–24 → Communal life among participants: assemblies, discussions, focus groups, pauses at the beach, and hikes in the woods in the area.

👉🏻 If you’re interested, apply to the Call for Participation, ⚠️ open until July 20! ⤵️

✨ We’re looking forward to meet you! ✨

(boosts are welcome)

#ScambiFestival#Scambi#Scambi2025 #degrowth #economics #economy#Italy #event #camp #festival#CfP#openCall #invite#TechnoFeudalism#Technology #tech#Fediverse#OpenKnowledge #education #assembly

(🇮🇹 Versione in italiano qui sopra ⤴️)

📍La Pigna, Sanremo (IM), Italy
🗓️ 20–24 August 2025

🫶🏻 Scambi is a participatory festival entirely organised by under-30 volunteers, where we share ideas, passions, insights through interactive laboratories and activities on several guiding themes:

• 🌻 Social and Environmental Justice
• 🌱 Degrowth and local/global economy
• 👾 Political Technology and resistance to Technofeudalism–with @dario from @fsfe, @wikimediaitalia, and many others)
• 🧠 Education and learning

🔋 The Program

• August 20 → public events, with labs a live music night featuring @kenobit, Mano Manita, and Dietro l’Angolo.
• August 21–24 → Communal life among participants: assemblies, discussions, focus groups, pauses at the beach, and hikes in the woods in the area.

👉🏻 If you’re interested, apply to the Call for Participation, ⚠️ open until July 20! ⤵️

✨ We’re looking forward to meet you! ✨

(boosts are welcome)

#ScambiFestival#Scambi#Scambi2025 #degrowth #economics #economy#Italy #event #camp #festival#CfP#openCall #invite#TechnoFeudalism#Technology #tech#Fediverse#OpenKnowledge #education #assembly