IDE and Assembler for 8086/88
I generally use nasm
(see here) and gdb
for any assembler-related development nowadays. I used to use a86
and d86
but they suffer from the problems that:
- they cost money so, in terms of bang per buck,
nasm
is infinitely better, literally so, since thebuck
denominator is zero :-) - they run only under Windows.
- they don't support the latest chips.
I'm not too fussed about an IDE since I use Vim for editing, along with makefiles or cmd
files for assembling it all.
I suggest emu8086. It has got IDE too, and it has some good example of assembly programming language.
For Windows (almost any version) I recommend EasyCode from Ramon Sala. It has an integrated visual IDE to create your apps and plenty of manuals from the creator's own hand. I spent some time flirting with the -also- very good Radasm but EasyCode is still developed as for 2012 with bug fixes and the like.