Devpac Amiga 2		Release 2.08
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Although individual program version numbers may vary, the
version number that should be written on your registration
card should be 2.08. When requiring technical support or
reporting bugs, please be sure to also quote the version
number of the individual program in question.

We have added many new features to Devpac Amiga since the
manual was produced, detailed below:

Editor
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When a System Requestor appears (e.g. File not found),
pressing any key is equivalent to clicking on Cancel.
The ARP File Requestor displays the first few files as
it finds them. To see the full file list, click on the
slider to the right of the filenames.
The editor preferences file (page 29) will firstly be
searched for in the current directory, then the C: directory.
This allows you to have a global preference file as well
as specific local ones in your source directories. This is
also true of MonAms preference file (page 107).

Assembler
=========
For increased compatibility, the directives CODE, DATA and
BSS are now supported. These are the same as specifying the
same name and type in a SECTION directive.
The stand-alone assembler GenIm2 gives a return code to
indicate how successful it was. Values are:
	100+	initialisation failure
	20	fatal error
	10	error(s)
	5	warning(s)
	0	OK
The stand-alone assembler can be passed a directory to
search for include files by using -iXXX on the command
line. Do *not* follow the i with any spaces.
When using the integrated assembler, its display may be
paused by holding down the right mouse button. Pressing
any key (page 27) will *not* pause the integrated assebler.

Debugger
========
There is a new command, V, that flips screens. Pressing
another key (so long as MonAm remains the current window)
will return the MonAm screen. It saves having to use the
screen gadgets and is normally more useful than the system
keyboard shortcuts.
The Help command (page 99) now displays the task status,
segment list, memory list and free memory. For UK A500 1.2
users who cannot use their Help key it can also be obtained
by pressing Right-Amiga H.

Manual Corrections
==================
Page 12, 9th line from bottom, should read 'first press Ctrl-Q
to ensure that the program will be killed and press Y to
terminate the program and the debugger. We can' etc.
Page 35, command line should start with 'GenIm2 '..etc
Page 36, third example should start 'genim2 '..etc
Page 99, 2nd para, delete the sentence 'though ROM breakpoints
may be emulated using the Run Until command'.
Page 105, find Next, the search area is now as follows:
	0-7FFFF;		Chip mem
	F80000-FFFFFF;		ROM
	xx-xx;			any additional RAM
Page 106, Top of RAM, this is no longer required as MonAm2
now walks the system memory list.

In order to make space on Disk 1, the following files and
directories have been deleted:
	Utilities	all
	Fonts		all except Topaz
	System		some
You can find these files on your original Workbench disk that
came with your machine.

When using GenAm2 and MonAm2 on PAL machines with external RAM,
you may sometimes get *two* mouse pointers; one will be the
normal Intuition pointer, the other will be the custom pointer
associated with the program you are using. Do not be alarmed -
this seems to be a harmless bug in Intuition.

Current Restrictions
====================
MonAm does not work correctly on 68010/020/030 processors.
Please return your registration card promptly to qualify
for your free upgrade.

Last changed: 6th Oct 1988

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Finally, a few notes from Neutron Dance:


How to use the SECTION-directives, for example to put your copperlist
in chip-ram:

		SECTION CopperList,DATA_C	; Makes a data-hunk in
						  chip memory
		dc.w	$1001,$fffe		; etc...


How to load a raw data picture, or soundtracker module:

		SECTION Stuff,DATA_C

Picture:	incbin "FileName"
Sound:		incbin "ModuleName"


How to make a bss hunk in chip-ram (for uninitialized data):


		SECTION BitPlanes,BSS_C

PicBuffer:	ds.b	8000


If you are making linkable code, do NOT try to define labels in BSS-hunk
as externally defined names, otherwise Devpac makes a visit to guru...