I finally found the NASM assembler.
I had heard that name before, many times, but somehow never looked into it. Weird. 🤨🤔
This is the kind of program I was looking for.
- It is free software. Especially in the DOS ecosystem, free/libre software is a very scarce resource.
- It’s a small command line program, not a huge behemoth.
- Documentation appears to be well written.
- It can even cross-compile DOS binaries from Linux.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de NASM is great. I remember playing with it back in my HS days. It has lots of little helps to make assembly more approachable.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de before this century. Back when colleges taught C++ instead of Java for CS degrees.
Wheni went through college / university they were teaching Java. I insisted I use C (not C++) for a lot of my assignments 😂
I finished my data structures classes with C++ and the next year they changed it out with Java. When i transferred up after my assoc degree it was C++ using the counter-strike source game engine.
Delphi at school, later Java and an own teaching assembler. Uni started out with Ada and then added Java as well. Here and there a few other languages, like Prolog (that I knew from school, though), I think C, the hardware guys brought us VHDL and some assembler that I don’t recall anymore.