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

posted by rr  , 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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Complete thread:

• (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 26.12.2020, 01:01 (Announce)
  • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - DosWorld, 26.12.2020, 16:01
    • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 26.12.2020, 16:31
    • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - Japheth, 26.12.2020, 17:25
    • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - RayeR, 26.12.2020, 22:48
      • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - DosWorld, 27.12.2020, 00:03
        • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - RayeR, 27.12.2020, 03:57
          • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - DosWorld, 27.12.2020, 22:11
            • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - RayeR, 28.12.2020, 01:09
              • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - DosWorld, 28.12.2020, 14:00
                • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - RayeR, 30.12.2020, 05:18
        • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 27.12.2020, 08:49
        • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - marcov, 29.12.2020, 19:14
  • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - Japheth, 26.12.2020, 17:18
    • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 26.12.2020, 17:33
      • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - Japheth, 26.12.2020, 18:14
        • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 26.12.2020, 23:26
    • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 26.12.2020, 23:22
    • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 27.12.2020, 13:22
  • ASM's symbol handling needs work - Japheth, 26.12.2020, 19:18
    • ASM's symbol handling needs work - rr, 26.12.2020, 19:23
    • ASM's symbol handling needs work - rr, 26.12.2020, 23:22
  • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 27.12.2020, 01:05
    • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 29.12.2020, 01:55
  • (My) fork of 8086 Assembler for DOS - rr, 02.03.2022, 21:54