Re: Need reviews of HLA Adventure

Jim Carlock wrote:
> I was thinking some application created the ".hla" file...

Oh, great! When did you last drop into ALA?

> So .hla is a text script currently.

No, it isn't. It's a program file (it's HLA's source file). The HLA.EXE
program is a front-end to the real workers (and it's still invaluable).
HLA.EXE invokes HLAPARSE.EXE to create the ASM and INC files from the
HLA file. HLA.EXE then uses MASM/TASM/FASM/Gas to assemble the file
into an object file*. HLA.EXE then calls the linker to link the file
into an executable.

*This step is present because HLAPARSE.EXE currently doesn't have an
encoder in it. This will be changed in HLA v2.0 when an encoder will
finally be present in the system. Randall can explain why he didn't do
this for HLA v1.0.

> Valid argumentation ?

Hardly.

> Hope that helps. Took a couple days for me to get things straight.

And yet you're still a ways off.

> --
> Jim Carlock
> Please post replies to newsgroup.

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