Ahhh yes.. assembler creation
in my previous job, years ago, we wrote software for an embedded board running on an HD64180 (a kind of super Z80).

We were using an old commercial DOS Z80 macro assembler from the early 80s, that kind of sort of worked OK under Windows XP, as long as you didn't sneeze.

It had really stupid problems, like cryptic error messages, and the number of imported symbols you could use depended on how many environment variables were defined in windows (!!).

Since it used its own wacky syntax, we couldn't easily port our code base to a different Z80 assembler, so I wrote my own syntax compatible Z80 macro assembler and linker from scratch in my spare time.

Happy days.
( Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 18:43, 1 reply)

Ahhh
I long for the days when I was a *proper* programmer instead of the dot net crap I do now (although in fairness - Visual Studio is one slick IDE and C# is quite nice as it goes, it's just about the only thing I can stomach using Windows for these days).
(dchurch bah, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 18:44, closed)

I'm still in embedded software engineering
doing low level stuff for digibox (satellite, freeview, IPTV etc.) chipsets.

I much prefer embedded stuff.
( Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 18:47, closed)