8-bit assembler compiler project

This project is an assembler compiler to generate a binary executable for 8-bit x86 like CPU systems. This compiler can parse NASM style assembler code and it compatibles with Marco Schweighauser's javascript 8-bit virtual CPU.

Compare with Marco Schweighauser's javascript compiler this compiler parse almost same assembler code and generate almost identical executable code. The only difference in this parser is that all the operands are separated by white space(s), and not with the comma ( , ).

 jmp start
hello:
 db "Hello World!"
 db 0

start:
 mov c hello
 mov d 232
 call print
 hlt

print:
 push a
 push b
 mov b 0
 
loop:
 mov a [c]
 mov [d] a
 inc c
 inc d
 cmp b [c]
 jnz loop

 pop b
 pop a
 ret

The output generated by this compiler for "Hello World" sample is listed in below and it can execute directly with Marco Schweighauser's 8-bit virtual CPU.

0000    1F0F 4865 6C6C 6F20 576F 726C 6421 0006  
0010    0202 0603 E838 1800 3200 3201 0601 0003  
0020    0002 0503 0012 0212 0315 0102 271F 3601  
0030    3600 3900

This compiler is implemented using Lazarus / FPC and it is designed to work with different operating systems including Linux and Microsoft Windows.

This 8-bit assembler compiler is an open source, free software project and it is released under the terms of GNU GPL version 3.0 license. All the source codes and Linux based binaries of this project are available to download at https://github.com/dilshan/assembler-compiler.

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