Why are assemblers called assemblers? - Retrocomputing Stack …
Jun 30, 2022 · Why are assemblers named assemblers instead of translators The industry leader at the time was IBM, which sold business machines to an international market before …
Is there a standardised 6502 assembly syntax?
Mar 9, 2024 · On the other hand, there are Assemblers coming from a more professional background with no relation to the MOS linage - and as usual anything inbetween. Wiki has a …
Is a version of the Turbo Assembler available for free?
Mar 30, 2024 · Please note that for this question I'm not interested in assemblers similar to TASM (of which I know of LZASM, which is freeware) or other alternatives to TASM.
First free and open source assembler and linker for i386 targeting …
Apr 15, 2024 · When comparing assemblers, I'll be considering the date of the earliest binary release. I've found WASM + WLINK in OpenWatcom 1.0 (binary release on 2003-01-28) and …
assembly - How did macro-instructions and indirect addressing …
Apr 17, 2021 · The MAP and FAP assemblers for the IBM 709/7090/7094 had a nice macro facility. I was surprised by its power. (Actually, I guess it is possible that most macro …
What's the convention for < > low/high-byte in 8-bit assembler?
Aug 16, 2023 · In turn x80 and x86 Assemblers could use those symbols as brackets for macro parameters or structures. 6500 World View In contrast the 6502 had to load and store each …
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Nov 21, 2020 · The IBM/360 Macro Assembly language was quite powerful, allowing non-trivial compile-time string manipulation. Did macro packages exist which would facilitate …
assembly - Do any 6502 assemblers have better support for self ...
The idea here is that bgnd_color is still a label, but it's inline and denotes the address of the operand, 8 or 16 bits.). Self-modifying code is quite common on old micros, so I am surprised …
The use of segments in non-relocating assemblers
Jan 17, 2021 · Some of these assemblers can generate relocatable object code, and have a separate linker to create the final binary. Others don't, and I'm trying to understand the use of …
When and why is fwait necessary when using the 8087 coprocessor?
Jul 24, 2025 · When the 8087 appeared, assemblers learned the FPU mnemonics for certain ESC instructions, and as most people didn't have an FPU also provided an efficient modular way to …