DOS ain't dead

JWasm and FASM are more robust than others (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 29.12.2008, 23:28

> > Jimg
> > wrote:
> >
> > > If only it were written in jwasm rather than C I'd jump all over it!

In other words, if Jimg knew C as well as assembly, he'd try forking / maintaining it?? I doubt that. But anyways, at least it's more robust than OpenWatcom's WASM (although I swear I thought someone wanted to bring it into the fold and keep both, which sounded sensible to me, but that hasn't happened for 1.8 RC1 at least).

> > Regrettably self compilability is a feature unique to FASM
>
> It's a known defect of the human brain: reason is just a slave, people
> believe what they want to believe.

FASM ain't the only assembler to assemble itself: Octasm, Wolfware, TMA, NBASM16, NGASM, A86, Intasm, XASM, Rosasm, etc. But most of those don't support multiple output formats well, if at all. And most of those aren't portable, so FASM is definitely superior, IMHO.

Complete thread:

• JWasm v1.8pre - Japheth, 17.06.2008, 11:04 (Announce)
  • JWasm v1.8pre | killing MA$M now ??? - DOS386, 18.06.2008, 12:23
    • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? - Japheth, 18.06.2008, 14:34
      • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? | Compiling RxDOS - ecm, 18.06.2008, 16:58
        • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? | Compiling RxDOS - Japheth, 18.06.2008, 19:17
          • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? | Compiling RxDOS - Rugxulo, 18.06.2008, 19:38
            • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? | Compiling RxDOS - Rugxulo, 19.06.2008, 23:43
              • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? | Compiling RxDOS - ecm, 20.06.2008, 12:58
          • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? | Compiling RxDOS - ecm, 18.06.2008, 19:46
            • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? | Compiling RxDOS - Japheth, 18.06.2008, 19:55
      • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? - DOS386, 19.06.2008, 08:33
        • JWasm v1.8pre | killing good MASM now ??? - Japheth, 19.06.2008, 10:02
          • rxdos + jwasm - Japheth, 20.06.2008, 07:47
          • JWasm v1.8pre | WLINK | PO | M | VALX - DOS386, 20.06.2008, 09:33
  • JWasm v1.8pre - Rugxulo, 07.08.2008, 07:09
    • JWasm v1.9 available - Japheth, 07.08.2008, 10:04
    • JWasm v1.8pre - Rugxulo, 20.08.2008, 22:29
      • JWasm v1.8pre - rr, 21.08.2008, 14:37
        • JWasm v1.8pre - Rugxulo, 21.08.2008, 22:04
          • JWasm v1.8pre - rr, 21.08.2008, 22:36
  • JWasm Forum - Japheth, 14.08.2008, 16:41
    • JWasm Forum - Rugxulo, 17.08.2008, 00:25
  • JWasm v1.91 - Japheth, 20.08.2008, 07:02
    • JWasm v1.91 - DOS386, 20.08.2008, 07:52
      • JWasm v1.91 - Japheth, 20.08.2008, 10:33
  • JWasm v1.92 is out - Japheth, 23.09.2008, 09:48
    • JWasm v1.92 is out - DOS386, 23.09.2008, 16:06
      • JWasm v1.92 is out - Japheth, 24.09.2008, 14:03
        • JWasm v1.92 is out - Steve, 24.09.2008, 23:44
        • JWasm v1.92 is out | fixed old bug | added new bug - DOS386, 25.09.2008, 15:55
          • JWasm v1.92 is out | fixed old bug | added new bug - Japheth, 25.09.2008, 17:21
            • JWasm v1.92 is out | many bugs found - DOS386, 04.10.2008, 04:39
              • JWasm v1.92 is out | many bugs found - Japheth, 04.10.2008, 08:53
                • JWasm v1.92 is out | many bugs found - Rugxulo, 04.10.2008, 20:28
                • JWasm v1.92 is out | many bugs found - DOS386, 05.10.2008, 13:47
  • JWasm v1.93 is out - Japheth, 26.10.2008, 20:06
    • JWasm v1.93 is out - DOS386, 29.10.2008, 09:46
      • JWasm v1.93 is out - Japheth, 29.10.2008, 13:59
        • JWasm v1.93 is out - ecm, 29.10.2008, 19:59
        • WARNING: your answers made me dangerously smart :-D - DOS386, 11.11.2008, 15:02
          • WARNING: your answers made me dangerously smart :-D - Japheth, 07.12.2008, 15:04
            • minor bug: REP CMPSB - Rugxulo, 07.12.2008, 20:28
              • minor bug: REP CMPSB - Japheth, 07.12.2008, 22:37
  • JWasm v1.94 - Japheth, 19.12.2008, 18:19
    • JWasm v1.94a and b - Japheth, 21.12.2008, 15:05
      • JWasm v1.94a and b - Rugxulo, 23.12.2008, 07:13
        • JWasm v1.94a, b and c - Japheth, 24.12.2008, 12:50
          • JWasm v1.94a, b and c and 1.95 pre - DOS386, 29.12.2008, 01:27
            • Reason isn't easy to find ... - Japheth, 29.12.2008, 08:31
              • JWasm and FASM are more robust than others - Rugxulo, 29.12.2008, 23:28
                • FASM is inferior for DOS programming - Japheth, 30.12.2008, 08:10
                  • FASM can't understand OMF ".OBJ" files - Rugxulo, 30.12.2008, 20:14
                    • FASM can't understand OMF ".OBJ" files - Japheth, 01.01.2009, 19:33
                      • FASM can't understand OMF ".OBJ" files - Rugxulo, 02.01.2009, 04:45
                      • FASM can't brew (!) OMF ".OBJ" files OBJCONV port it away - DOS386, 02.01.2009, 10:39
                        • FASM can't brew (!) OMF ".OBJ" files OBJCONV port it away - Japheth, 02.01.2009, 11:14
                          • I like the bin format - ecm, 02.01.2009, 19:00
                            • FASM lacks OMF/OBJ support (16- / 32-bit) - Rugxulo, 02.01.2009, 19:59
                              • FASM lacks OMF/OBJ support (16- / 32-bit) - ecm, 02.01.2009, 22:36
                                • FASM lacks OMF/OBJ support (16- / 32-bit) - DOS386, 04.01.2009, 11:17
                                  • FASM lacks OMF/OBJ support (16- / 32-bit) - Rugxulo, 04.01.2009, 21:26
                  • FASM is superior for DOS programming - DOS386, 30.12.2008, 22:40
  • JWasm BANNED - DOS386, 22.03.2009, 05:10
    • No - Japheth, 22.03.2009, 06:42
      • Overlay swopping and segment macros - ecm, 22.03.2009, 11:49
      • No - Rugxulo, 27.03.2009, 17:00
        • No - Japheth, 28.03.2009, 07:11