I can't seem to compile the Donkey Kong asm file

[TheSourceCode]

I have been trying so hard to compile the donkey kong asm file that i found on this website. I've had no luck.


I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.



Any Help?

[RedComet]

From the description:
Disassembly of the Atari 2600 game Donkey Kong. Compiles with DASM and vcs.h.

You gotta use DASM.

[Sawakita]

or is he/she(/it?) referring to the NES one? In that case, the disassembly author didn't specify which assembler is required (certainly not Visual Studio, I say..)

[TheSourceCode]

or is he/she(/it?) referring to the NES one? In that case, the disassembly author didn't specify which assembler is required (certainly not Visual Studio, I say..)

Right. I have been trying to compile the NES one.


And yes, I'm a he.

[pditincho]

I did the disassembly. Sorry for replying so late and for not being clear on this, but it's not yet possible to assemble the disassembly, mainly because I haven't finished the semantic analysis (although I am quite close to finishing).
This is necessary in order to assign meaningful labels to addresses.

When that is done, I will prepare the code for assembly, although I am not familiar with the different 6502 assembler syntaxes in use these days, and so I'm not sure yet which one to use. But it will be ready eventually.

[syntax error]

Visual Studio 2010 for NES homebrew?
It has been a long time since Microsoft wrote development software for 6502 and 8080/Z80.

[pditincho]

After some quick research, I've decided to use ca65. I am currently reassembling it, piece by piece, in order to both have it in a working condition and to later test some things that are still not 100% clear.