Trying to assemble Darryl's SBC-2 OS

[Dan Moos]

I want to put Darryl's SBC-2 OS on my eeprom, as it has everything I need. Since the particulars of his hardware are different than mune, clearly I need to be able to edit it, and thus assemble it.

I tried TASS and discovered sadly it won't run on 64 bit windows.

I tried 64Tass and got errors that suggest the linker wasn't happy. I entered the exact assembler command that Darryl's readme suggested. I am beginning to suspect that 64tass is its own thing, and not just a 64 bit version of TASS.

I don't care specifically what assembler I use, but it would be nice to be able to assemble Darryl's code so I can customize it for my machine.

Any ideas?

[BigDumbDinosaur]

Dan Moos wrote:

I want to put Darryl's SBC-2 OS on my eeprom, as it has everything I need. Since the particulars of his hardware are different than mune, clearly I need to be able to edit it, and thus assemble it.

I tried TASS and discovered sadly it won't run on 64 bit windows.

I tried 64Tass and got errors that suggest the linker wasn't happy. I entered the exact assembler command that Darryl's readme suggested. I am beginning to suspect that 64tass is its own thing, and not just a 64 bit version of TASS.

I don't care specifically what assembler I use, but it would be nice to be able to assemble Darryl's code so I can customize it for my machine.

Any ideas?

Try assembling it in the Kowalski simulator package. I don't know if that is what Darryl used to assemble the SBC-2 operating system. I do know it will assemble eHBasic.

Incidentally, you are creating a lot of topics about the same thing: your new computer and what you are doing to get it up and running. It's getting a little cumbersome to follow along.

[Dan Moos]

I know
I posted this same question in the main thread, and got crickets for two days. New thread? Instant response! I agree a single thread would be better, but sometimes I get impatient

[BigDumbDinosaur]

Dan Moos wrote:

I know
I posted this same question in the main thread, and got crickets for two days. New thread? Instant response!

Probably coincidence. Attendance here will ebb and flow, and it could be others read your main topic post but didn't have anything to contribute in the way of an answer.

[Martin_H]

What I did was download DOSbox which emulates x86 and then ran the 32 bit TASS on it.

[Dan Moos]

I actually did download DOSbox, but couldn't get it to actually assemble anything.

What I did was install DOSbox, put the entire SBC-2 folder contents in the TASS directory, go to that directory while in DOSbox (having mounted the C drive), and type in the exact command line in Darryl's readme. Unless I'm missing something, nothing assembled. All I got was the help listing.

How'd you get it to work?

[Martin_H]

I started up DOSBox and typed

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mount c c:\users\martin\github
c:
cd SBC2.7
tass /c sbc.asm

This produced SBC.O64 as output.