Intel MCS-96 C compiler

[Jáchym Hurtík (JachyHm)]

Hey,
recently I've stumbled across really old piece of code written for MCS-96, specifically 80C196.
I was able to get hand on floppy including complete source code, even with linker batch files, but they refer to linker and compiler executables for MCS-96, which unfortunatelly were not part of the floppy:

• asm96\asm96
• ic96\bin\ic96
• asm96\rl96
• asm96\oh

I assume these are part of some software set for MCS-96, but I was not able to find any on the internet - except of one floppy image called "ASM960" from BitSavers which is intended for DOS, but it kept crashing DosBox and I wasn't sure if it was even what I was looking for.

Does by any chance anyone happen to have a C/ASM compiler and linker they could share?

I would appreciate ones for Windows (if it even existed), but I think I can also get DOS one to work.
It would help me a lot, as I have to compare the compiled bytecode to existing one, to be sure I didn't make any unwanted changes.

Thanks in advance,
J :)

[Jon Hales]

Hi Jáchym

Can I suggest as a first step that you look at the website: https://intel-vintage-developer.eu5.org/

This appears to be a website that was current in the later 1990s. I'm attaching a couple of screenshots.

If you don't find what you want at that Intel website, I have PDF copies of Intel MCS-96 manuals, namely the ASM96 (with linker) and iC96. Both manuals include DOS software disks which I saved as floppy images in ImageDisk format (Dave Dunfield's IMD image format). Note that the manuals refer to the 8096 microcontroller.

If you would like to have PDFs of the manuals and disk images, I can place them on my Google Drive for you to download - but it may take me a day or two to locate the files.

There was a discussion of these manuals in April 2024 on intel-devsys.

Best regards

Jon Hales

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