I'm now working on developing the LibSF assembler (lasm) to get my Microsoft MASM 6.11d source code to compile.
Why not use one of the WASM derivatives that are already MASM 6.x compatible?
I also have the original MASM 6.11d that still works properly, along with the Microsoft C 6.0 compiler I used for C code at the time, and the CodeView debuggers that go along with them.
It's because I'm creating the Village Freedom Project for the Liberty Software Foundation. I want to create something similar to what the Free Software Foundation has done with GNU, but to do it with an effort focused on expressly serving the Lord, rather than expressly not serving the Lord.
My backstory is here if anyone's interested:
[brief summary] I was an atheist until 2004. I met Jesus Christ and was changed that year, and have been changed ever since. I've been amazed at the changes. It's taken me time to sort out things in my life. I kept trying to assert things that weren't truly what I believed in and felt, so it was a slow process because I'm pretty hard headed. In 2009-2010 I had decided to start working on some free software projects (free software meaning
copyleft). Free software uses the copyright system for the benefit of the recipients rather than the authors. It's like copyright flipped over, so they call it copyleft. I continued on those efforts creating my own original software, and decided in June 2012 that I would use my OS development skills and complete GNU's HURD kernel for the Free Software Foundation. I contacted Richard Stallman and told him my plans. He suggested I don't work on the HURD kernel, but instead work on creating a better Adobe Acrobate clone, and some other similar apps. I considered these things, and did some research into Stallman. I discovered some disturbing things about him, and I confirmed them in email. They were exceedingly non-Christian viewpoints, and decided that I could not do any work for either the FSF or GNU because both are Stallman's creation, and because Proverbs 29:12 is real.
I then reflected upon who I was, what I served (God, Jesus Christ), and what I could do with my talents. I had begun work in 2010 on a free software replacement for Visual FoxPro (called Visual FreePro), but I didn't get very far on it. It was now July, 2012 and I considered several possibilities. I decided to create an alternative to the Free Software Foundation and it's non-belief in God foundation and form, and to create one that was a pursuit of serving God. I created the Liberty Software Foundation, and called my software liberty software instead of free software.
That was July 12, 2012, and I've been pursuing those goals ever since. During that time I've had two other developers come on board in 2015 and help me for several months, but the rest of the work has been my own. I have asked on forums for help, gone places offering my skills and abilities, and because I am someone who places a priority on Jesus Christ at the head of my life, making it something that's visibly out front in my endeavors, I just can't find people who are willing to get past that and come on board and help. I've even had several people who profess to have a strong relationship with Jesus Christ to tell me how I am doing it so very wrong.
I desire with the software I'm creating for the Liberty Software Foundation to create a full ground-up effort, from even the hardware and machine BIOS at some point, but for now the OS kernel, to drivers, to OS utilities, to applications, to toolsets, etc., to be an offering unto the Lord explicitly, by name, because I acknowledge that everything I have has come from Him, that I am not a self-made man, and that without Him I would've had nothing.
It doesn't seem to be something people want to be a part of ... so I continue on alone (much to my sadness).
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin