can you place all your variables/constants in a seperate file (inc, h, etc), in the sense of 'cleaning' up the main file? if so, will these variables be global?

There are macros for that purpouse in Fresh standard library. They are described in FreshGuide.chm file that comes with our IDE. Just download it and and see

thanks ill take a look

how about placing different sections in sepaerate file? like resource section, etc

cocount - i think you didn't fully comprehend what is preprocessor. Directive "include" just inserts one source file into another, before it is assembled (and thus global/local is made).

Maybe you could take a look at my tuts (http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=1178), file 'preproc.txt' (article about preprocessor)