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R. Swan's A72 assembler (8086, self-assembling, 8k .COM) (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 26.05.2021, 01:58

Jim Hall announced a week ago the new release of version 1.03. Now it has two .COMs: A72.COM (8 kb) and A72_87.COM (11 kb). See Github or iBiblio.

However, it regressed (now mishandles "OUT" somehow). So my existing Sed script for PSR Invaders doesn't work anymore ... except via workaround:

s/OUT *\([0-9]*h\)/db 0E6h,\1;&/

I haven't updated the PSR Invaders package in a year. (Well, I haven't had iBiblio access since September and still haven't gotten a new laptop. So I was only barely doing minimal mirroring via Linux USB jump drive before that.) But I did tell Jim in October that I was still working on it. However, he doesn't want to include it in FD 1.3 anyways (weird licensing??). I mentioned to the mailing list a few times (November?) that I was working on it via AWK or REXX. So I haven't worked on it since December.

But last week I did finally send Jerome a link to my files. He actually updated the package and updated his mirror on Gitlab. (I really should learn Git. They give away a free e-book, progit.pdf, on their website.)

The only obvious reason to mention any of this is because I also uploaded some interpreters (awk, sed, rexx) last month and sent a message to freedos-user ... but nobody cared. I told Jerome about that, too (smaller TC++101 build of MAWK, IA-16/GCC build of HHsed, DJGPP 2.05 build of latest Regina). You need to add -e "s/$/\r/" for HHsedGCC because it only outputs *nix LF files, which some assemblers (e.g. A72) hate.

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