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NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 08.09.2010, 06:28

> >> is crap.
> > It's not. But yeah, it hasn't been developed since 2000,
> I can't remember exact dates but I know AWBAT (Win32 "tweak") was developed
> until 2003. I have a D86 here also dated 2005. Eric does still respond to
> emails at least to registered folks - certainly the case couple of years
> ago.
AWBAT is a hack, and I don't think even EJI himself would deny that. (Uses ALINK 1.7 beta, right? BTW, that guy [A.W. in U.K.] dropped by OW's newsgroup a few months ago to talk about multi-threading.) I'm not saying it isn't good, but ... well it seemed fairly minimal when I looked years ago. (Besides, I had no interest in Windows, and not even now except compiling portable code to run there via FPC or Cygwin or similar.) Of course I would think FASM is more suitable nowadays (and with better examples, e.g. FASMW), no offense to EJI's hard work, he's very talented.

Someone told me they asked him to port A86 to Linux, but he refused. (Unreleased Isforth for DOS, ah well.)

His website still lists 4.05 as latest, so apparently he hasn't updated it officially since then (2000). IIRC, D86 had some binary patch to use 386 debug registers, which modifies the timestamp (hence your 2005 remark ??). I'm not saying you're wrong, but I don't know of any new updates or additions in past years.

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