DOS ain't dead - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM)

R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 23.10.2020, 16:47

> > I do wish that there can at least be another assembler™ that
> does
> > have bells and whistles. ????
>
> Best, old-time assembler with whistles is Turbo Assembler,
> but we'll never see him at topic like this :(

MASM and TASM are long ago obsolete. Well, MASM is still updated but hasn't been DOS-hosted since '95, and it ripped out 16-bit target since, what, 2010? Nobody cares about OMF either since forever, everything's PE/COFF or ELF or Mach-O. I sympathize with you, obviously, and there's still tons of legacy DOS code that hasn't been converted to Free/libre tools like NASM. But we're stuck trying to pick up the pieces and keeping classic things alive somehow.

If you're curious, some really in-depth history of MASM and TASM are below:

* http://bytepointer.com/masm/index.htm
* http://bytepointer.com/tasm/index.htm

A much briefer history of MASM is here:

* https://sites.google.com/site/pcdosretro/masmhist

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R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - Rugxulo, 19.10.2020, 16:22 (Developers)
- R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - tkchia, 19.10.2020, 19:12
  - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - DosWorld, 21.10.2020, 13:58
    - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - Rugxulo, 23.10.2020, 16:47
      - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - marcov, 24.10.2020, 01:01
  - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - Rugxulo, 03.11.2020, 00:06
    - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - tkchia, 03.11.2020, 11:21
      - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - Rugxulo, 04.11.2020, 02:40
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - kerravon, 03.07.2021, 12:59
        targeting MASM and NASM - Rugxulo, 03.07.2021, 20:18
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - tkchia, 03.07.2021, 22:36
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - kerravon, 04.07.2021, 01:25
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - Rugxulo, 04.07.2021, 04:12
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - kerravon, 04.07.2021, 05:16
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - Rugxulo, 04.07.2021, 06:46
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - kerravon, 04.07.2021, 06:58
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - tkchia, 04.07.2021, 09:36
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - kerravon, 04.07.2021, 09:53
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - tkchia, 04.07.2021, 11:10
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 11k .COM) - kerravon, 04.07.2021, 12:08
- R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 8k .COM) - Rugxulo, 26.05.2021, 01:58
  - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 8k .COM) - Khusraw, 03.07.2021, 11:44
    - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 8k .COM) - Rugxulo, 04.07.2021, 03:56
      - R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 8k .COM) - Khusraw, 04.07.2021, 07:55
        R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 8k .COM) - Rugxulo, 14.07.2021, 01:44
- R. Swan's A72 assembler 1.04 (self-assembling, 8k .COM) - Rugxulo, 26.03.2022, 20:20
  - R. Swan's A72 assembler 1.05 (self-assembling, 8k .COM) - Rugxulo, 20.11.2023, 10:44