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From: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
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Subject: Re: Best DOS assembler?
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Date: Thu,  1 Sep 2011 22:46:10 +0200 (CEST)
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Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> monahanz  <monahan@vitasoft.org> wrote:
> >What is the best way to use an 8086 Assembler on Windows 7 (64Bit).
> >MASM 5.0 requires a XP virtual box.   is there a simple way to
> >assemble small amounts of code directly in a Windows 7 window.
> >
> >I just cannot seem to get Visual Studio (8) to run with MASM either
> 
> Finding a 32-bit version of MASM isn't hard.  It's included (as ml.exe)
> with Visual Studio C++ Express and number of freely available SDKs
> and DDKs.  The tricky part is finding a 32-bit version of LINK that can
> produce MS-DOS executables.  I use one hidden in the Windows XP DDK,
> but you might be able to find it elsewhere.

I think you should be able to find LNK563.EXE on downloads.microsoft.com