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(My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS (Announce)

posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 26.12.2020, 16:31

> > Its very creative name is "8086 Assembler for DOS". It was written by
> > Stephen Duffy in 2001. He first released the source code
>
> IMHO, all of assemblers have one big problem ("big problem" - this is from
> my point of view) - they does not generate obj/omf. What about obj in this
> assembler? Second "problem" - they all limited to .com file.
https://github.com/bttrx/8086-assembler#limitations clearly says "No support for .EXE or .OBJ files."

> PS: I am make fork - msa2, add missed opcodes, made code "compilable" by
> modern GCC (you can use msa2 in linux/windows) and made code-refactoring,
> but stop at obj generatation. This is a reason, why i don't anonce msa2.
> FIXUP record explode my already-damaged-brain :( (Hope, with time, i am win
> this challenge and complete this work)
That might be the reason, why other "hobby" assemblers also do not support .OBJ files.

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