community building - a dedicated asm forum

[Onkar Shinde]

as the popularity of GNUSim8085 is increasing, which is also due to the Win32 binary being available now, it is getting very obvious that this project could benefit from a place where its users could talk about the topic of the simulator, namely 8085 assembly programming-given that this a pretty limited topic, it might be better to consider starting a partnership with an assembly programming community instead of starting our own forum, which would probably be only used by our users.

So starting a partnership with an assembly programming community such as masm32.com or asmcommunity.net would have several advantages, for both communities.

We could for example get in touch with the admin/mods over at masm32.com and ask them if they'd be willing to host a *sub* forum specific to 8 bit programming on the 8085, so that's where we could point all users.

So this would be a place specific to 8085 assembly programming, only - not about programming GNUSim8085!

I think it would be the most logical thing we could do, and it's really not all that unlikely that soem popular assembly programming community would be willing to join this effort with GNUSim8085.

In the same sense, we could delegate this component of GNUSim8085 support to a much more competent place.

The alternative would be to start our own forums, here.

What do you guys think?

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

the masm32 forum is at: http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php

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Just in case: if it should turn out to be too complicated to get an affiliation going, there's also the 8085 forum at programmersheaven: http://www.programmersheaven.com/tags/8085/Forum/

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for starters this could be just a very general forum about programming in 8 bit environments (microprocessors & microcontrollers), this would help ensure that there's a wide target audience, later on this could become more specific to programming 8 bit intel chips.

With such a scope of a dedicated "8 bit embedded programming" forum, other communities would also be more likely to accept an affiliation, because it wouldn't be merely specific to GNUSim8085, but could also be used by users of other simulators/emulators.

So, GNUSim8085 would just boil down to being the initiator of such a campaign, and would possibly be endorsed/recommended by the community.