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Title: Difference???
Post by: InLove on April 13, 2005, 06:47:43 AM
Hey everyone,

I love the assembler language, although I am still learning it. What I want to know is what is the difference between Tasm and Masm? I like Tasm and was told by numerous programmers that it's the one to go for (the pick of the bunch), but there is a lack of tutorials and source code. So I opted for Masm thinking there really isn't much of a difference...   :red

Matt
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: hutch-- on April 13, 2005, 07:08:38 AM
Matt,

TASM has been a good assembler in its time but its time is over. It is no longer supported by Borland and MASM is a lot more powerful. You could also look at a few others that are well written, FASM, GoAsm and NASM.
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: hitchhikr on April 13, 2005, 07:12:06 AM
Masm is alive and updated, Tasm is not, their syntaxes are similars, masm is easier to operate, imho.

Personally i use Nasm for it's ability to produce binary files and it's incbin command which is handy, it's syntax is slightly different from the former ones, tho.

There's mostly only one kind of people using tasm.
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: hutch-- on April 13, 2005, 09:13:52 AM
 :bg

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There's mostly only one kind of people using tasm.

:clap:
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: kick on April 14, 2005, 06:19:10 AM
What are this kind of people ? People who usually work with tasm.
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: Faiseur on April 14, 2005, 10:27:51 AM
29A ?   :wink
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: P1 on April 14, 2005, 02:17:05 PM
Quote from: hitchhikr on April 13, 2005, 07:12:06 AM
Masm is alive and updated,
Not if M$ has it's way.  There is not going to be a 64 bit version that's worth much.

Regards,  P1  :8)
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: hutch-- on April 14, 2005, 02:35:39 PM
 :bg

Give 'em time, I have seen versions of ML in the past that were genuine lemons as it was being changed for later OS versions but they tend to get it right later on as they always end up needing it themselves. 6.11c was a disaster and somewhere I have seen a Microsoft cooked version of ML 6.2 or 6.3 that was a shocker as well.
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: InLove on April 19, 2005, 02:08:19 AM
I used to be that sort of person  :dance:  :lol  :U
Title: Re: Difference???
Post by: InLove on April 21, 2005, 05:34:42 AM
I like Masm although all my fellow peers tell me it sucks, but hey that's there opinion.