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 , 03.07.2021, 22:36

Hello kerravon,

> > does help a fair bit, but yeah, there's still many things it doesn't do
> > (even fairly simple things).
> I would like to write assembler to a common
> subset of masm + nasm, so I am very interested
> in this.
> But can I do the "%use masm" without specifying
> that in the assembler source file, which masm
> would presumably barf on?

Specifying a "--before ..." command line option to nasm might do the trick.

I doubt though that there is such a thing as a "common subset" of masm and nasm that might be useful for writing stuff we actually want to write. I think the syntaxes and worldviews of these two assembly language varieties are quite different indeed.

Thank you!

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