Any assembler included with FreeDOS will work perfectly for your use case.

Personally between fasm and nasm I have a slight preference for nasm
because it has clear and extensive documentation including examples on how
to create 16-bit code for DOS: https://www.nasm.us/docs.php

Il giorno mar 22 dic 2020 alle ore 01:31 Marv <moa47...@gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> The other day I decided to do some experimenting with the parallel port on
> my FreeDos machine, so I built an adapter with 8 LEDs connected to the
> output bits. It didn’t take too long to figure out how to turn the LEDs
> on/off using QBASIC.
>
> But I wanted to get a little closer to machine level control over the
> port. I decided to go with Microsoft’s MASM 6.11. Apparently, it was the
> last version that ran on MS-DOS. I liked the fact that it came with a lot
> of reference documentation.
>
> I did install it on my FreeDos 1.3 machine and get it working. I’ve been
> able to turn the parallel port bits on and off, etc.
>
> I installed MASM before I realized there are a couple of assemblers listed
> on the FreeDos software page. The Flat Assembler seems especially well
> supported. Is anyone here familiar with FASM? MASM is probably overkill for
> my purpose and like many other Microsoft products, their support for it is
> mainly reference material for experienced programmers.
>
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/fasm.html
>
>
>
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