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Sonny Hung | 1 Sep 2006 03:18

Re: What is NASM 2.1 for

On 8/31/06, Frank Gruendel <newtontalk <at> pda-soft.de> wrote:
> > Does this package do anything when Tapped?
> > Or is it just sitting there and nothing happens when Tapped?
>
> I have it on two Newtons. On one it reports an error, on the other
> one the Newton resets after 1-2 seconds after tapping it.

Well that's great.
I'm wondering (Out Loud of course) whom did you get these from or who
originally owned them???

If they were the persons who had installed these packages then we
might possibly ask them, but I know you are fairly through on all
matters and probably got a dead end there :(

> > Have you extracted it out of theMP130 back to a desktop computer?
>
> No. Even if this was possible, which I'm not sure of, what would
> be the benefit?

Well the only benefit for now is that we would have a copy of it off
the Newton which we could install back on at a later time - Of course
you could always do this by making a backup on Flash Card. Not the
same as sending it back to the desktop but also works.

The other future benefit would be that IF we ever get a clue to what
it's use is then we woudl have a something to fall back on as a copy.

If the file name were directly related to the finding on the internet
I would venture to say it could be a way to transport assembler code

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Adam Goddard | 1 Sep 2006 12:04

Re: What is NASM 2.1 for

On 01/09/2006, at 11:18 AM, Sonny Hung wrote:
> Well the only benefit for now is that we would have a copy of it off
> the Newton which we could install back on at a later time - Of course
> you could always do this by making a backup on Flash Card. Not the
> same as sending it back to the desktop but also works.
>
> The other future benefit would be that IF we ever get a clue to what
> it's use is then we woudl have a something to fall back on as a copy.
>
> If the file name were directly related to the finding on the internet
> I would venture to say it could be a way to transport assembler code
> on to the Newton for programming and then transfer it back to a
> desktop (probably a  Linux machine) but of course I'm totally jumping
> of a cliff with this theory...
>
> By the way, is there anything else associated with it such as a 
> Storage file?
>
> To bad there are no tools to decode packages like DeBlitz which were
> used with Commodore 64 to reverse compiled basic programs (compiled
> with Blitz)
> I think that's the name of the program - I could be wrong since it's
> bee years since I used a C64.

 From what I can find, it's possibly a Newton Assembly language compiler?
http://lists.tunes.org/archives/tunes/1997-April/001129.html
Or:  "NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the 
Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, which uses the traditional Intel 
instruction mnemonics and syntax." 
(http://www.piclist.com/techref/language/asm/nasm.htm).

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Sonny Hung | 1 Sep 2006 14:34

Re: What is NASM 2.1 for

On 9/1/06, Adam Goddard <pashosh <at> tpg.com.au> wrote:
>  From what I can find, it's possibly a Newton Assembly language compiler?
> http://lists.tunes.org/archives/tunes/1997-April/001129.html
> Or:  "NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the
> Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, which uses the traditional Intel
> instruction mnemonics and syntax."

Yeah,
I would think that you conclusion is probably close to what it might be.
I would further venture to hypothesize that it does this but ALSO that
it might be -
A portable solution to write code where you can transfer to and from a
desktop computer the code you are working on...

By what Frank describes I would say that thoughts on it which I also
contemplated might be correct... but the gap after you tap the icon
could be it wanting to process a data file OR that it's trying to
communicate with a desktop bet eventually fails for whatever reason
because it's not able to get what it's looking OR waiting for.

Hey we can only dream right! 
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God bless,

Sonny Hung
the Hung Family
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