Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft 8086 Assembler

2020-12-22 Thread ZB
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 07:30:46PM -0500, Marv wrote: > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft 8086 Assembler

2020-12-22 Thread Lino Mastrodomenico
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 d

[Freedos-user] Microsoft 8086 Assembler

2020-12-21 Thread Marv
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 contro