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I am using the VASM assembler with the VICE emulator. I have tried to find the answer to my problem on other forums (https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic ... 70&start=0) and to figure out that on my own without any succes so far...

I have found that other assemblers, e.g. 64tass has a nice feature when executed with switch --vice-labels. It generates file with labels and breakpoints that could be loaded by VICE and used in the monitor when started with the -moncommands switch. KickAssembler has a similar function (I have never tried it, but it is described in the manual).

Does anyone know if VASM can do it also? The only thing I found is the -L <listfile> switch, which generates a file with many parameters, which could theoretically be post-processed into a format that VICE would understand. There is no other option? Anyone using VASM?

Links
* 64tass: http://tass64.sourceforge.net/
* KickAssembler: http://www.theweb.dk/KickAssembler/KickAssembler.pdf
* VASM: http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/release/vasm.pdf

To be more flexible, we implemented this feature in our linker vlink rather than the assembler. If you are already using vlink, you can simply add the option: -vicelabels <filename>

If you are creating the binary directly with vasm, you can do an additional pass, e.g.:

Hi vbs
The vlink works great. I still need small advice - is there any way how to create the breakpoints (?based on some directive in the source file), which will be included in the VICE monitor file produced by -vicelabels, e.g. lines like those below, so the VICE emulator stops on those breakpoints?
Thanks a lot
STeN

I am not sure if I correctly understand your question. Do you want to add additional vice commands into your assembly source and have them somehow passed through the label file created by vlink? If yes, I do not think this is not possible.