DOS ain't dead - TASM conversion

TASM conversion (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 27.04.2009, 04:51

> > Hey guys,
> > As you probably know, TASM is no longer developed. And even though
> you
> > can get TASM32 5.3 (from 2000) from the Turbo C++ Explorer 2006
> package,
>
> Isn't it more with .NET, .NET SDK J# and MSXML etc included ? :-) At least
> it is that way with Turbo Delphi Explorer. I'd say it is more 480ish.

It's too big, whatever it is. I have the bandwidth, and I don't even want to bother. (Already did, Vista has .NET runtimes already, wouldn't install anyways. Blech.)

> Turbo Delphi Explorer also comes with TAsm 5.3 btw.
>
> Also I think it depends heavily on what you want to do. If you want to do
> major new development on these sources it might be worth to port them. I
> however doubt that, since then you'd only picked one instead of several.
>
> If you just want to be able to do minorly changed build from time to time,
> just get the relevant TASM, and spend the time you spare by using it on
> improving the packages rather than the format they come in.

I've never really used TASM, and hence I don't really truly appreciate its syntax, so I'm not emotionally (or practically) tied to it. In other words, it has no advantages that I can see over other assemblers, only drawbacks. I'm not saying it's bad or that it isn't useful, just that I don't prefer it. But a lot of DOS code uses it.

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Complete thread:

TASM conversion - Rugxulo, 21.04.2009, 20:48 (Developers)
- TASM conversion - ho1459, 22.04.2009, 12:51
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- TASM conversion - DOS386, 26.04.2009, 02:25
- TASM conversion - marcov, 26.04.2009, 11:51
  - TASM conversion - Rugxulo, 27.04.2009, 04:51
    - TASM conversion - marcov, 27.04.2009, 10:03