On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 03:33:29PM +0000, Bret Johnson wrote: > FWIW, I prefer NASM myself also. I started out using A86/A386 a long > time ago (before NASM and FASM even existed in a useful form) but my > source code eventually got too big for A86 to handle. A86 doesn't take > advantage of extended or expanded memory or protected mode so it can't > handle large or complicated source files, plus it's not free. [..]
Thanks. Learning how to use these tools themselves will take some fair share of my time, that's why I'm curious to know opinion of more experienced ones. > Also FWIW, I still prefer the D86/D386 Debugger (though even it has its > quirks). The Debugger is at least as, if not more, important as > the Assembler itself. I read very good opinions about Watcom's debugger (WD) - from Open Watcom package - but not yet tried it by myself -- regards, Zbigniew _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user