I'm just glad you're up & running under your own power. What's the point
of source if you can't use it?
I now feel like apologizing for focussing around z88dk. I chose to use
z88dk because it seemed the most current and actively maintained 8085
assembler.
It seemed like something that would be the easiest for a user to install
in the future since it had a current web site that you can google and
download binaries for linux, mac, and windows, not some old win32 binary
that doesn't even run on current windows any more without rigging up
some special supporting environment, etc, or worse an old dos app that
needs dosbox to even run at all including on windows, hasn't been
updated in forever and never will be since no one has the source for it...
I guess that much IS true at least, that anyone on any of the major OS's
can download current binaries for z88dk.
But it's such a large suite with all kinds of stuff because it's not
just an assembler but also a c compiler and a boatload of templates and
frameworks and boilerplate for targetting a bunch of different old
machines, with a lot of machine/platform specific stuff not just their cpus.
An assembler is actually a relatively simple tool and doesn't need to be
large. It can be a single small file that's much simpler to copy,
install, run, port to all OS's, etc.
A while back HackerB9 tried to convince me to make some changes to
RAMDSK source so it would build with asmx. I wasn't very interested at
the time because I was still too busy just trying to figure out RAMDSK
itself to think too much about getting the source to be compatible with
some other assembler. I tried a little but mostly just said "well that
assembler sux anyway..." and didn't think about it any more.
https://github.com/bkw777/NODE_DATAPAC/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed
https://github.com/bkw777/NODE_DATAPAC/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen
But I think I'm not saying that any more :)
Merely assembling should be simpler to go from zero to running.
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bkw
On 10/19/26 15:41, Georg Käter wrote:
Now it works. I´ve to apologize my stupidness. As always, just have to
read and follow the instructions.
Thanks again for your help
Regards
Georg
