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- Wolfware Assembler Revision History
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- This is a brief history of the changes that have been made to
- Wolfware Assembler (WASM) since its initial release in February of
- 1986. In addition to the below, erroneous instructions on how to
- patch up and fix certain bugs in Version 1.0 were released in
- December of 1986. These instructions, if encountered, should be
- avoided.
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- Version 1.0, February, 1986
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- Initial public release.
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- Version 2.00, December, 1986
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- Major revision. New features include conditional assembly,
- macros, parenthesis in expressions, DOS 2.0 support, and
- rewritten documentation with index and bibliography. Major bugs
- fixed are unsigned divide overflow and error closing include
- files. Upward incompatibilities are operands must be separated
- by commas, only immediate data can be equated, PROGRAM_SIZE is
- changed to $SIZE, and user defined symbols should not start with
- $.
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- Version 2.01, February, 1987
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- New feature is relative ORG displacement. Other changes are
- FLAGALL- is now default and larger programs can be assembled.
- Bugs fixed are error in memory allocation that could result in
- insufficient memory error and the spelling of "February" is
- corrected.
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- Version 2.02, March, 1987
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- New feature is segment override may be specifed as CS:, DS:,
- ES:, or SS: (on the line before the instruction, same as DEBUG).
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- Version 2.03, March, 1987
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- Minor internal changes. New sample files.
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- Version 2.10, November, 1987
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- Support for 8087 instructions, $END constant implemented.
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- Version 2.11, March, 1988
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- Minor internal changes. Sample files updated.
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