> On Oct 20, 2026, at 4:22 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah everyone's got their opinions on this. > > For whatever reason the Telemark TASM assembler is my favorite. Simple. But > yeah it's DOS + linux basically abandonware. But it's table driven IIRC and > supports our undocumented instructions and doesn't really change.
I'm personally more or less OK with z88dk for what little I do, but it's heavy and clearly not seamless for everyone to get up and running. The idea of Telemark appealed to me but the black box closed source and the difficulty of getting it up running made it a dead end for me when I tried. Modulo the wide range of surely divergent opinions, what are folks' take on assemblers like a85 and asm85? They seem like nice, lightweight, straightforward options, often in the operating system's repo and fairly portable/cross-platform. If we were to tell someone to "assemble this real quick and try...[thing]" what would we point them to so that a dev environment becomes the very least of their problems?
