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[] issues - FASM riddle waiting to be solved (DOSX)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 28.02.2008, 00:28
(edited by Rugxulo on 28.02.2008, 00:51)

> > FASM and NASM
> (w/
> > NASMX) are both
> > fully able to write Win32 programs.
>
> I already wrote small Win32s programs (for Windows 3.x) with old NASM 0.97
> for DOS. ;-) That's almost 10 years ago!
The default NASM 0.97 for DOS runs out of memory quickly. But, RDF 1.1 is (AFAIK) the only "working" version of RDOFF that WDOSX supports, so in that case, I use NASM 0.97 (Win32 version, stubbed by WDOSX, heh, able to use more memory than 16-bit compile).

> > And yes, FASM is open source (BSD-ish license, I think).
>
> Sorry, my mistake!
Don't worry, we all make mistakes. (I misspelled "February" in two of my recent posts. Oops.) :rotfl:

But FYI, FASM is indeed a backend to various compilers: HLA, PureBasic, BlitzMax, Context/Win32, B0. (Taken from FASM's Wikipedia page.) So yes, it is freely available for most uses.

EDIT:

(LICENSE.TXT from latest version)

> flat assembler version 1.67
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007, Tomasz Grysztar.
> All rights reserved.
 >
> This program is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as
> the following conditions are adhered to.
 >
> Copyright remains Tomasz Grysztar, and as such any Copyright notices
> in the code are not to be removed.
 >
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
> met:
 >
> 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
> this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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 >
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