On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 7:40 PM Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 4:33 PM Alvah Whealton <awheal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I'm looking at TASM 5.0 for DOS and Windows, with a date of 1989. > > I guess what I'm asking is if Assembler requires any considerations on > an emulator that other software does not require. > > But TASM 5.0 was released in 1996 (since 1.0 was 1988). > > (quoting the Byte Pointer website I linked above): > > "TASM 5.0 was exclusively a 32-bit protected mode assembler > (TASM32.EXE) for Windows and would be into the future, although it > retained the DPMI stub continuing to allow it to run under DOS > provided you have the Borland Runtime Manager (32RTM.EXE) and the > 32-bit DPMI server (DPMI32VM.OVL) in your path. The distribution did > however include the previous DOS assemblers (TASM.EXE and TASMX.EXE) > and linker (TLINK.EXE) from version 4.1." >
*As you can see, I'm less than a novice at this. I don't know what the $#%!# I'm looking at, but here is where it came from:* *https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-assembler/5x <https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-assembler/5x> * *My confusion on dates stemmed from a Borland manual that came with the download, giving copyright dates of 1988 and 1996. Clearly, they did the smart thing and in 1996 upgraded the older 1988 manual. I did the un-smart thing and made an assumption. * > Did you explicitly need TASM (Ideal) syntax support? Are you starting > a new project or using legacy code? Normally around here we would > recommend a different tool, e.g. NASM or FASM. (OpenWatcom's WASM > -zcm=tasm does have partial support. For MASM v6 stuff, JWasm is a > much better fit.) > *In the past I have tinkered with C and with Pascal. I'm left with a desire to tinker with Assembler "because it's there." I don't "need" anything. My only requirement is that it should work with FreeDos and that it should have some awfully good documentation available somewhere. * *Thank you for your kindness and your patience. * *Al Whealton * > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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