This program takes in a text file written in assembly language, and writes out binary instructions to another file. The binary instructions can then be directly executed by the Consolite microprocessor or an emulator.

Consolite (coming from "Console Lite") is the name I've given to my design of a hobbyist microprocessor and associated toolchain. Consolite's instruction set architecture (ISA) has assembly level instructions for setting colors, drawing pixels on the screen, and receiving input. This makes it suitable for writing games, which is what makes it a "console".

• Display: 256 x 192 pixels, 8-bit color
• Registers: 16 general purpose, instruction pointer, color, flags
• Memory: 64KiB main memory, 48KiB video memory

This version of the assembler is written in C++, and uses only the standard library. To build the project just type make.

./asm SRC DEST

• The assembler can't read from standard input because it needs two passes through the assembly code, the first for error checking and the other for converting to binary.
• The assembler can't take in multiple source files. You will have to do something like cat FILE1 FILE2 FILE3 > FILE4 && ./asm FILE4 DEST to achieve this.
• The maximum output filesize is limited to 64KiB, because Consolite must load the entire binary into main memory before it can start executing.

• Documentation for the Consolite assembly language