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There was the a86/d86 suite for assembly and disassembly which were shareware as long it wasn't used for commercial purposes. These worked well enough.
by mrlonglong 4y ago
There was the a86/d86 suite for assembly and disassembly which were shareware as long it wasn't used for commercial purposes. These worked well enough.
- stevekemp 4y agoA86 was what I used, in the DOS 3.3 days. Before that it was a case of writing code on graph paper, looking up the opcodes in the manual, and assembling by hand. Needless to say that writing programs was slow and difficult. I think I jumped straight from paper -> A86, without using debug.com. Not sure why.
- mtrower 4y agoThey were shareware, but that's not the same as freeware. He did expect payment for the software if you actually used it beyond evaluation, commercially or not. As I recall he wanted $50 for a license. As incentive, he'd send you enhanced versions of the software (with 386 opcode support iirc... or was it 32-bit support?), and a ringbound hardcopy of the manuals.