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Friday 23 October 2015

How to install tasm in windows 10,8,7 or vista(64 bit or 32 bit)?

To install tasm in windows, follow the given steps.

1. Download DOSBox and install it.

2. Download tasm

3. Extract tasm to C drive(or any X drive).

4. Open DOSBox

5. Now we need to mount tasm folder in DOSBox as given below:
mount c c://tasm  (or mount x x://tasm)
6. Now change current drive to C (or X) as
c:// (or x:// )
7. To list the files type
dir
 8. Now you can use dos commands and tasm related commands(edit, tasm, tlink, td etc.)

9. To go to full screen press alt+enter

Enjoy 8086 programming

Update: To avoid typing "mount c c://tasm" and "c://"
go to
1. C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74(for 32bit) or C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.74(for 64bit) (or installation directory of dos box)

2. Open DOSBox 0.74 Options which opens a text file in notepad

3.  Go to last line of file, it shows "# You can put your MOUNT lines here."

4. Add after the line
mount c c://tasm
c://



5. Save the file

6. Open DOSBox

Voila! DOSBox now auto-mounts the tasm directory