Installing Devpac 3 Assembler (Amiga 1200 Workbench 3.2)

In this video all I'm going to do is install "Devpac 3" an Amiga machine code assembler to the hard drive (or in this case and SD card to IDE drive). The reason I'm doing the video as it wasn't totally straight forward to get it going. It seems that back in the day, installing programs wasn't always a simple as just clicking the installer program and going to make a cup of tea, you had to do a lot of the work yourself.
• Installing Devpac 3 As... - Update video showing an easier (more correct) way to get this install working
• Looking back at Devpac... - My previous video all about this software and what it does.
This software is no longer in production (even though the company that made it is STILL in business in 2024), but it's available here:
archive.org/download/Commodor...
Chapters:
0:00 - Running Devpac From Floppy
2:26 - Install Instructions
3:58 - Copy to HD
5:35 - Assigning Paths
9:03 - Works!
9:21 - Optional Extras (Command Path)
10:45 - Assembling Examples
12:37 - Thanks for watching

[@DavePoo2]

I found the reason how it could find those .i files even though they are not on my hard drive, and how to get this install working easier (and correctly). It's covered in the follow up video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqjaoaR7g7yIibs

[@thegreathadoken6808]

Well, well, well, if it isn't Mr Amiga himself. Last night I got a couple of cans in, some snacks, all the neighbours crammed in for a watch party (okay, I'm exaggerating horrifically)...but no livestream. But that's okay! To drown my sorrows I watched bits of some of your older ones. I was surprised to see that, until perhaps 9 or 10 months ago, not a single one of today's regular livestream viewers were about. At least if they were, I didn't see them. It's almost like a travelling entertainer of old, passing through town after town for a night or two before moving on again, except it's the viewers who pass through. It's almost poetic. See you next time, when ever that may be.

[@spencerdavies4666]

Loved Devpac 2/3 and TT on my Atari ST and TT. Great environment. Also loved HiSoft's X-Debug.

[@DavePoo2]

Yep. It was my first experience of an "IDE", although that wasn't a word back then.

[@ShieTar_]

Regarding the mystery include files: Try to just type "assign" in a shell, and maybe you will find that some other installation has already given you an artificial "include:" directory that devpac is just happily using.

[@DavePoo2]

I'll give that go, but even if there was a mystery assign, I searched the whole drive for one of those files and I couldn't find them.

[@airjuri]

10:30 root is : and btw you do not have to use cd to navigate paths :)

[@DavePoo2]

It's the MS-DOS reflexes kicking in!

[@Lucretia9000]

There is someone still selling devpac. Do you have the ndk installed?

[@DavePoo2]

The include files I just used were the ones that came with it, so you would only be able to compile for up to workbench 2 with those.

[@Lucretia9000]

@@DavePoo2 You said you didn't know how it assembled because you didn't copy the includes across, so did you have the ndk installed?

[@DavePoo2]

Not that I am aware of. I couldn't find any of the referenced include files on the drive.

[@DavePoo2]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqjaoaR7g7yIibs - I found the reason how it could find those .i files. It's covered in this follow up video.