DOS ain't dead

TASM conversion (Developers)

posted by marcov, 27.04.2009, 10:03

> It's too big, whatever it is. I have the bandwidth, and I don't even want
> to bother.

Well, converting heaps of source are way more work.

>(Already did, Vista has .NET runtimes already, wouldn't install
> anyways. Blech.)

The 2006 series is older and still for .NET 1.1. Vista comes with 2.0, (and W7 with 3.5, but that is backwards compat with 2.0). Also the big chunk is the SDK, not the .NET runtime itself. You need that to get worthless help.

> 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.\\

No you are emotionally tied to small filesizes

> In other words,
> it has no advantages that I can see over other assemblers, only drawbacks.

It _is_ freely available, and of known quality, and supports (OMF only?) .objs.

> 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.

Well that is the main point. There already is a lot of use, and it is freely available (albiet a bit big), so simply invest the months converting and validating and just use it.

Don't worry, I use Turbo D for work, so you can always get one from me should the dl disappear

Complete thread:

• TASM conversion - Rugxulo, 21.04.2009, 20:48 (Developers)
  • TASM conversion - ho1459, 22.04.2009, 12:51
    • TASM conversion - rr, 24.04.2009, 20:11
      • TASM conversion - Rugxulo, 24.04.2009, 21:00
  • 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