DASM On DOS

[pettapatta]

Hello everyone! I’ve been messing around with FREEDOS recently and have been loving the distraction free environment I’ve gotten setup on there. I’ve managed to find a DOS (16-bit) version of DASM (version 2.12) that works but have run into a minor issue. A source that compiles on the newest version of DASM, on my Linux PC, does not compile with DASM 2.12 as it doesn’t recognize “CLEAN_START” as a mnemonic. I’ve made sure to include macro.h, and as I d mentioned prior it does compile correctly with the newest version of DASM. My current conclusion is that version 2.12 does not recognize a few macros on macro.h. Does anyone know of a new version of DASM that will run on FREEDOS?

[+splendidnut]

You could try downloading the source code to DASM:  https://github.com/dasm-assembler/dasm...

... and compile it in your favorite 16-bit C compiler.

 

OR

 

Copy the contents of the CLEAN_START macro into your source file.

 

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Feel free to share your source code.... there might just be a typo in your code.

[pettapatta]

19 minutes ago, splendidnut said:

You could try downloading the source code to DASM:  https://github.com/dasm-assembler/dasm...

... and compile it in your favorite 16-bit C compiler.

 

OR

 

Copy the contents of the CLEAN_START macro into your source file.

 

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Feel free to share your source code.... there might just be a typo in your code.

I have no idea why I didn’t think to compile DASM’s source code! Thank you for the help!

[pettapatta]

UPDATE:

 

Just wanted to put this out there for anyone that might run into my exact situation down the line. After reading the documentation, as well as comparing my code to one written by another, I've come to realize another solution to this dilemma was merely to place 'NO_ILLEGAL_OPCODES = 1' into my code. This instantly did the trick as now the source compiles properly.

[+Andrew Davie]

Really, you should not be using such an old version of DASM.

I'll see if I can get a DOS build of DASM added to the github distribution.

[+Andrew Davie]

On 12/13/2022 at 2:18 AM, pettapatta said:

UPDATE:

 

Just wanted to put this out there for anyone that might run into my exact situation down the line. After reading the documentation, as well as comparing my code to one written by another, I've come to realize another solution to this dilemma was merely to place 'NO_ILLEGAL_OPCODES = 1' into my code. This instantly did the trick as now the source compiles properly.

If you have not done so already, please join Club DASM on this site.

There is a build of DASM for DOS just released - thanks to @splendidnut

Try it out and give us some feedback if it's working for you.

 

[pettapatta]

On 12/14/2022 at 8:42 PM, Andrew Davie said:

If you have not done so already, please join Club DASM on this site.

There is a build of DASM for DOS just released - thanks to @splendidnut

Try it out and give us some feedback if it's working for you.

 

Thank you for leading me to this! I have joined and I will test out that DOS build right this instant!