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Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 29.07.2020, 09:40

> > That's great news, thank you! Does anyone know whether this WASM is
> > compatible with other assemblers?
>
> WASM.TXT only says "and the source code is not MASM compatible."

WASM is basically a 286-targeting assembler that outputs .COM. It may have some limited macros for OMF output, but I can't remember. It's written in itself, self-assembling. I think it's only one pass, and it doesn't do short-jump size optimizations.

The only use I've gotten from it in recent years was briefly under 8086tinyplus (when NASM didn't work). Actually, even there I was only using my .BAT + Sed scripts for PSR Invaders, so it can be made to reassemble that. There was another homegrown util, years ago, that I also used Sed to convert to WASM output, for laughs, but that tool wasn't very well written nor uniquely useful.

It comes with some good example code of his own, though, IIRC.

Complete thread:

• Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - rr, 27.07.2020, 19:51 (Announce)
  • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - ecm, 27.07.2020, 23:34
    • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - rr, 28.07.2020, 20:36
      • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - Rugxulo, 29.07.2020, 09:40
        • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - rr, 04.08.2020, 21:34
  • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - rr, 28.07.2020, 20:36
    • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - ecm, 29.07.2020, 02:10
      • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - rr, 04.08.2020, 21:30
    • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - Rugxulo, 29.07.2020, 09:33
      • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - rr, 04.08.2020, 21:32
  • Eric Tauck's old software goes MIT license - Rugxulo, 29.07.2020, 09:47