Re: Need reviews of HLA Adventure



Frank Kotler wrote:
> dunric@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Try using the Free HLA (fhla) download instead of the regular
> > MASM-compatible version of HLA. I ran into this problem as well,
>
> You mean you *knowingly* broke the most brutally powerful
> assembler in the world?

Hmmmm...
Paul, if you could isolate the code section that is causing this
problem and email it to me, I'd fix this in HLA. This is just a stupid
bug that would be quite easy to fix if I were to have an appropriate
example of the problem.

>
> You really ought to fix that. People's opinions of Masm
> differ, but it *is* a widely-used assembler, and it's a
> shame if hlaadv won't assemble with it.

Naw, it's not Paul's problem to fix -- it's mine. If HLA is generating
assembly code that cannot be handled by MASM, then I should fix this
problem in HLA rather than requiring end-users to work around the
problem (shades of RosAsm!).


>
> Something I'd like to see in hlaadv is I'd like to get my
> normal screen colors back when I quit. Should just take one
> last call to "console.setattributes" to do it...

I agree, I've found this annoying, too.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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