Question

I want to learn how to programming with assembly language for 8086/88 processor, but I couldn’t find any IDE and assembler for this reason.

Answer 1

I generally use nasm (see here) and gdb for any assembler-related development nowadays. I used to use a86 and d86 but they suffer from the problems that:

• they cost money so, in terms of bang per buck, nasm is infinitely better, literally so, since the buck denominator is zero 🙂
• they run only under Windows.
• they don’t support the latest chips.

I’m not too fussed about an IDE since I use Vim for editing, along with makefiles or cmd files for assembling it all.