Re: ASM

["Nathan Willis" <magesturm@hotmail.com>]

Title: Clear Day

It's available in the Windows 98 DDK (which is free). If you don't want to download the whole DDK just for the assembler, you can simply download the BINS_DDK.EXE file, which contains the assembler and linker. Run the file to produce BINS_DDK.CAB. You can extract the individual files from BINS_DDK.CAB using EXTRACT.EXE which should be in your WINDOWS subdirectory. This will give you the MASM 6.11d executable (rename bin_win98_ml.exe to ml.exe), error file (rename bin_win98_ml.err to ml.err) and 32 bit linker (rename bin_link.exe to link.exe). The linker relies on mspdb50.dll which you will also have to rename, if you don't already have it on your system from other Microsoft development tools. You might want to update the assembler to a later version, version 6.14, from the Microsoft ftp site. There's also a 16 bit linker available at that site

 

its also available from

http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/asm.html

with a lot more asm compilers

----- Original Message -----

From: Derold Clifford

To: Game programmers

Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 1:02 AM

Subject: ASM

I think I saw a letter fly through here wanting a download site for masm.  I not sure if there is such a site but I do known that Microsoft no longer suports that product and its hard to find even in there warehouses.

  However I was looking through GameProgrammers links and saw this one http://www.web-sites.co.uk/nasm/.  All the books I read on the subject of assembly language covered Masm and Tasm and at least one for Tasm and the only real differnce is in there gui and help systems.

  Good luck on your search.

 

 

Derold Clifford
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