TASM Assembler for Mesa firmware

I just noticed that the Mesa hostmot2 firmware zip doesn't include the TASM assembler needed to build the D16 firmware. Does anyone know if this is available anywhere? Seems strange to supply the assembly source without a way to assemble it.

 

No sure of the legal status of the Telemark assembler so I have not provided it.
(it is available from some sources like ticalc.org)

Hmmn. I tried that first and concluded it was not the correct assembler - It complains about .MACRO being an unrecognized directive and that there are misaligned labels.

Is v3.2 the correct version?

On an slight side-note, etherhm2.asm includes etherhm2.equ which isn't included in the firmware archive. There is an etherhm2.inc, so I've edited the include to point to that instead. Hopefully that's correct. But it won't assemble anyway due to the above issue.

Thanks,

Jon

Not sure what version of TASM is used.
etherhm2.equ is generated from the .inc file

Since Telemark TASM seems to have been present without complaint
at ticalc.org for a long time I will post our version here along with the
other build tools.

 


 

Thank you Peter. I'll give this a try tomorrow.

MAKEINC.EXE does the .INC to .EQU conversion?

Take a look at the MAKEE.BAT file

MAKEINC converts the EQU file to an assembly include file
(it can also make Pascal or C includes)
MACRO is a general purpose macro processor

Thanks Peter, I now have the tools working nicely.

For anyone else bumping into this thread in the future ... I had to run the tools through 'dosbox' on Linux (Note that they will not run on Windows).

On Fedora:
$ sudo dnf install dosbox
$ cd <path-to-hostmot>/configs/hostmot2/source/etherhm2
$ dosbox -c "mount c ${PWD}" -c "c:" -exit MAKEE.BAT

The MAKEE.BAT script will do all the work and spiut out a new etherhm2.vhd file.