OASM (stands for "object assembler") is a next gen Z80 assembler, targetting ZX Spectrum demosceners.
- Make programming for ZX spectrum great again!
- Compatible with already estabilished assemblers
- This goal is not about 100% compatibility, but more about migration your old routines to OASM.
- If you don't like my concept of objects, you'll still be able to write code as before, with a bare minimum object-related stuff.
- Cover a whole demo development process
- Basically, your
asmfile should cover a whole process of demo creation, from writing routines, over data compression, up to packaging product into final TAP file.
- Basically, your
- Motivate developers to build a huge library of shared, open source routines
- Imagine a library containing all player routines for well known music trackers, simply accessible just by importing it's github repository
- Support for macOS, linux & windows platforms
- Make API for external debuggers. In far far future, I would like to write a nice graphical debugger for macOS, but this requires a kind of debug symbols server process to be developed first.
- Make it multiplatform. The parser will not be Z80 centric, so it may be relatively easy to add support for another CPU architectures (like 6502).
Right now I'm collecting ideas & trying to specify a final language syntax. You can check documentation page for details. Feel free to ask me about more details at [email protected].