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╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ MicroCom Systems, copyright 1986, all rights reserved. ║ ╠════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╩════════════════════╗ ║ LANGUAGE-3a,b A86 8088/8086 ver 2.18 advanced macro assembler and debugger.║ ╠═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ LANG-3a: A86 assembler, disk 1 of 2. ║ ║ ║ ║ A86 COM 14848 Fabulous 8086/8088 macro assembler. ║ ║ EXMAC COM 3130 Macro expansion program for macro debugging. ║ ║ XREF COM 4897 Cross reference program, creates from symbol table. ║ ║ ERDEMO BAT 39 Demo of what happens when A86 encounters an error. ║ ║ LISTDOCS BAT 520 Prints all documentation. ║ ║ MAKREV BAT 21 Assembles the REV.8 and linked ZLINES.8 programs. ║ ║ MTCOLS BAT 34 Assemble TCOLS.8 and use XREF to create a cross ref. ║ ║ AREAD_ME DOC 12278 A86 introduction, overview, and what to read next. ║ ║ COMPAT DOC 9474 Discussion of compatibility issues. ║ ║ COND DOC 8747 Description of conditional assembly features. ║ ║ CONTENTS DOC 3826 Description of the A86 macro assembler doc files. ║ ║ DEMO DOC 5067 Demo documentation of A86, XREF, and EXMAC. ║ ║ D_INIT DOC 4745 Description of data allocation directives. ║ ║ EFFADDR DOC 12600 Documentation of assembly lang. effective addresses. ║ ║ EQU DOC 4866 Description of the NIL prefix and EQU directive. ║ ║ EXCLUSIV DOC 7283 Documentation of unique A86 features. ║ ║ EXMAC DOC 1612 Description of EXMAC macro expansion tool. ║ ║ EXPR DOC 16456 Overview of expressions permitted by A86. ║ ║ FLOAT DOC 14706 Description of floating point support. ║ ║ FWD_REF DOC 2127 Description of forward reference handling. ║ ║ INSTR DOC 24653 Summary of 8086/8088 instruction set. ║ ║ INVOKE DOC 5703 Documentation on invoking the A86 program. ║ ║ LIST DOC 4083 Description of listings using A86. ║ ║ MACRO DOC 17017 Description of the A86 Macro programming features. ║ ║ ORG DOC 2883 Description of the ORG and EVEN assembly directives. ║ ║ PRIMER DOC 10337 Documentation on A86 and macro assembly language. ║ ║ PROC_LAB DOC 3561 Description of PROC, ENDP, and LABEL directives. ║ ║ REQUIRE DOC 1066 Description of system requirements for A86. ║ ║ RESERVED DOC 9180 Summary of reserved symbols in A86. assembly lang. ║ ║ SEGMENTS DOC 2442 Documentation of segments in A86 and 8086/8088. ║ ║ STRUC DOC 1318 Description of the STRUC directive. ║ ║ XREF DOC 4787 Description of XREF cross reference facility. ║ ║ PAGE OLD 871 Old version of the following program. ║ ║ PAGE 8 901 Sample program writes page eject to PRN. ║ ║ REV 8 3789 Sample program reverses standard input strings. ║ ║ TCOLS 8 18299 Sample program formats single column input. ║ ║ ZLINES 8 3968 Sample program buffers lines and write them out. ║ ╠═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ ║ LANG-3b: D86 debugger, disk 2 of 2. ║ ║ ║ ║ D86 COM 10029 Preliminary test copy of the impressive D86 debugger. ║ ║ D86CHECK COM 650 Program to check certain DOS parameters in effect. ║ ║ HEXOUT COM 83 A86 assembled HEXOUT.8 program. ║ ║ A86 COM 14848 A copy of the assembler for this disk. ║ ║ D86LIST BAT 173 Print all D86 documentation files. ║ ║ AREAD_ME DOC 13214 D86 introduction, overview, and what to read next. ║ ║ COMMANDS DOC 6185 Summary of the D86 command language. ║ ║ CONTENTS DOC 1156 Description of the D86 debugger documentation files. ║ ║ DEMO DOC 11822 Demonstration of a D86 seesion using the HEXOUT prog.║ ║ MAIN DOC 10780 Documentation on invoking the D86 debugger. ║ ║ MEMORY DOC 16753 Description of D86 memory window display features. ║ ║ REQUIRE DOC 773 Documentation of the system requirements for D86. ║ ║ TROUBLE DOC 5797 What to do if D86 does not work on your system. ║ ║ HEXOUT 8 3513 Sample program converts hexidecimal to binary. ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ ┌──────────────┬──────────────┐ │ A86 COM │ COMPAT DOC ├──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┐ │ EXMAC COM │ COND DOC │ EXMAC DOC │ MACRO DOC │ STRUC DOC │ │ XREF COM │ CONTENTS DOC │ EXPR DOC │ ORG DOC │ XREF DOC │ │ ERDEMO BAT │ DEMO DOC │ FLOAT DOC │ PRIMER DOC │ PAGE OLD │ │ LISTDOCS BAT │ D_INIT DOC │ FWD_REF DOC │ PROC_LAB DOC │ PAGE 8 │ │ MAKREV BAT │ EFFADDR DOC │ INSTR DOC │ REQUIRE DOC │ REV 8 │ │ MTCOLS BAT │ EQU DOC │ INVOKE DOC │ RESERVED DOC │ TCOLS 8 │ │ AREAD_ME DOC │ EXCLUSIV DOC │ LIST DOC │ SEGMENTS DOC │ ZLINES 8 │ ├──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──┐ │ Hardware: No special requirements. │ │ Software: Dos 2.0 or later. │ │ To start: Enter "A86" followed by the name of a file to be executed. │ │ To end: Hit <Ctrl>C to interupt prematurely. │ │ For help: Read all .DOC files. │ │ Author: Eric Isaacson, 416 E. University Street, Bloomington, IN 47401. │ │ Reg. fee: $40. │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ A86 is the finest assembler, user-supported or not, available for the │ │ PC--paraphrasal of the author's own words. While this may sound perhaps a │ │ little ambitious, after a short period of time learning this program, you │ │ will at the very least be very impressed with its features and its speed. │ │ A86 accepts assembly-language source files, and transforms them │ │ directly into either: (1) .COM files executable under MS-DOS, starting at │ │ offset 0100 within a code segment; or (2) object files starting at offset │ │ 0, suitable for copying to ROMs. A86 is a full-featured, │ │ professional-quality program. A86 was designed to be close to the │ │ Intel/IBM assembly language standard except where language enhancements │ │ were made. │ │ Some of A86's unique features are: Its speed (several hundred lines per │ │ second), its simplicity (because a linker is not necessary, A86 directly │ │ produces an executable .COM file), its ability to assemble large programs │ │ (the symbol table has room for 1500 entries and there is room for 8000 │ │ bytes of compressed macro definitions), language extensions (PUSH, POP, │ │ conditional returns, and more), a very sophisticated macro facility, direct │ │ insertion of error messages into the source file, support for some of the │ │ 80186, 80286, and NEC processor instructions, and the support of the D86 │ │ symbolic debugger. │ │ With its newest release, A86 has added support for floating point │ │ instructions, support for some of the extended instructions available on │ │ the 80186, 80286, and NEC processors. │ │ On the flip side, some of A86's enhancements which are not yet │ │ implemented are: support for the protected operating system instructions of │ │ the 80286 processor, creation of .OBJ files which can to programs written │ │ in other languages. │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ┌──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┐ │ D86 COM │ D86LIST BAT │ CONTENTS DOC ├──────────────┬──────────────┐ │ D86CHECK COM │ AREAD_ME DOC │ DEMO DOC │ MEMORY DOC │ TROUBLE DOC │ │ HEXOUT COM │ COMMANDS DOC │ MAIN DOC │ REQUIRE DOC │ HEXOUT 8 │ ├──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──┐ │ Hardware: No special requirements. │ │ Software: Dos 2.0 or later, and the A86 macro assembler. │ │ To start: Enter "D86" followed by the name of an object file. │ │ To end: Hit "Q" or <Esc>. │ │ For help: Read all *.DOC files. │ │ Author: Eric Isaacson, 416 E. University Street, Bloomington, IN 47401. │ │ Reg. fee: $40. │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ D86 is a preliminary test copy release of a debugger. It is a symbolic │ │ debugger and will work with the symbolic output of the A86 assembler. As │ │ you would expect from a symbolic debugger, you can refer to variables and │ │ memory locations by the names you assigned them in your original A86 │ │ assembly language program. │ │ D86 is a powerful debugger with such features as: registers and flags │ │ are automatically shown on the screen, a symbolic disassembly of the │ │ current instructions around the location which you stop at, a display of │ │ the top elements of the machine stack is shown automatically, windows in │ │ memory can be set showing you the current values at the specified locations │ │ constantly, on-line help explaining the debugger commands, easy stepping │ │ one instruction forward at a time, immediate execution of A86 assembly │ │ language instructions, and much more! │ │ On the flip side of D86 is the fact that this is a very preliminary │ │ release of this program and some of the planned features which are not yet │ │ implemented are: thorough testing of the full-screen interface on many │ │ different machines, allowing for A86 to be in another directory, operating │ │ on .EXE files (currently D86 only works with .COM files), display of the │ │ floating-point stack, improved status and error reporting, recording and │ │ playback of keyboard scripts, complex memory searches, invoking a secondary │ │ command processor, improved stepping and trapping abilities and more. │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ╔════════════════╗ ║MICROCOM SYSTEMS║ ╚════════════════╝ MicroCom Systems distributes Public Domain and User-Supported (PD&US) software for the IBM PC/XT/AT and compatible computers. Our software charter specifies that we search for the best available PD&US software and distribute it for a nominal charge. We understand that there are literally hundreds of megabytes of PD&US software in existence and it is our goal to distribute only the best, which constitutes only a small fraction of all PD&US software. Our prices are also a reflection of the fact that we are a service oriented group. In addition to offering only the best of what is available, we DO NOT offer lots of redundant programs, which other public domain software groups tend to do. We try to provide the service of distributing only the best program available for a particular need, rather than every program on the market that meets that need. 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PC-Recipe cooking database with keyword retrieval. (Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk!) LANGUAGE 1 ..... PDProlog 1.91a, 5th generation lang for Artificial Intellig. LANGUAGE 2 ..... A small C language compiler and interpreter! LANGUAGE 3 ..... A86, a full featured 8086/8088 macro assembler and debugger. LANGUAGE 4 ..... 370 assembly language assembler, linker and 370 emulator. LANGUAGE 5 ..... Turbo Pascal utilities including interactive debugger. LANGUAGE 6 ..... Complete 17 lesson Turbo Pascal tutorial w/sample programs. LANGUAGE 7 ..... Visible Pascal, pascal compiler and interpreter! LANGUAGE 8 ..... Xlisp 1.7, the standard for Artificial Intelligence langs. LANGUAGE 9 ..... The ICON string and structure oriented programming language. MUSIC 1 ........ Many clever tunes, and an exc. color graphics music editor. MUSIC 2a,2b .... PianoMan 3.0 polyphonic music recording and playback program. ORGANIZER 1 .... 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