Constants, addresses and their contents

[mercifier]

Do yourself a favour and DON'T...

OK, I'll follow that advice!

I include a EQU statement like @ EQU OFFSET in a  my code.

Sound reasonable, but as Hutch said, it's probably best to stick with common syntax, even if it's sometimes awkward.

By the way, how do you like the way the Motorola 68000 series can do a direct memory to memory copy instead of having to run the contents through a register or stack first?  Ratch

Well, most of the time you load data into the processor because you want to process it in some way, not just store a copy of it somewhere else. But indeed, there are times when a memory to memory move would be more traightforward. I guess that the old repeatet string operations were supposed to make up for that. However, I have learned that compact and versatile instructions does not always mean that the program will run faster.