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[colorforth] DOS based MASM


Guess the Arrow Assembler would be a good assembler for 16-bit DOS apps, but it
breaks quite badly on 32 bit. Only generated 1210 errors on color.asm,
including not recognizing either the 'tiny' or '.486' directives.

Chuck used a MASM 6.11.c to develop colorForth. The original package came with
an additional program called 'DOSXNT.EXE' which is required to run the
assembler. Check the MASM32
http://www.movsd.com/masm.htm
package to see if that might be available in it. Othewise, you will have to
boot from DOS 7.0 into Win9x and run MASM32 from there. N.B. MASM32 generates
slightly different opcodes from 6.11c, which may or may not be salient.

Regards,
Terry Loveall

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Taylor" <staylor@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "colorforth List Member" <colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: [colorforth] DOS based MASM


> I found the Arrow Assembler mentioned on the FreeDOS web site.  I haven't
> tried it but here is a link to it.
>
> http://www.math.upatras.gr/~kostasp/download.html
>
> Steve Taylor
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:List-Admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Brendan Van Horn
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:20 AM
> To: colorforth List Member
> Subject: [colorforth] DOS based MASM
>
>
> Greetings!  I am trying to work with colorForth but the compiled versions
> I've
> found don't work with my hardware.  So I'm trying to modify the source to
> match
> my hardware.  The problem I'm having is that all the versions of MASM I have
> are Win32 console mode apps.  They don't run so well on my old DOS system
> I'm
> using.
>
> Can anyone tell me where I could find a version of MASM that will work with
> DOS
> 6.22?
>
> Also, are their any archives of this list?  The ones I've found don't have
> the
> messages from the last couple of months.
>
> Thanks!
>
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