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 tkchia , 03.11.2020, 11:21

Hello Rugxulo,

> > it is a bit of a shame that, besides Microsoft's own assemblers,
> > the only assembler that can build Microsoft's GW-BASIC sources is JWasm,

> I know you need OMF support for linkable objects, which NASM has. So what
> exactly is holding you back? (Sorry, I haven't looked closely yet.)
> Preprocessor? Macros? Structs? Or just basic syntax?

> NASM, since 2.15, has "%use masm" for some extra compatibility now. It's
> not perfect (no ASSUME overrides, no auto variable size handling), but it
> does help.

Macros, weird pseudo-ops (.RADIX, COMMENT, .XLIST, etc.), SEGMENT directives, you name it. nasm's masm.mac package --- yes, I just tried it --- is pretty minimal, and the documentation admits as much.

Thank you!

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