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Searching for manuals and docs about Open Watcom linker, inline assembly and C compiler, as I found official manuals not good enough. I'm focused especially on C and assembly. I would appreciate you for links to tutorials, books and etc.

hrust
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Back in time Watcom was a perfect tool for 32-bit C/Asm development. At the same time much information could be found in ftp archives like good old ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi. It is now defunct, but mirrors exist. Look at the /watcom folder there.

Also try searching older sites like http://www.programmersheaven.com, they are the source.

EDIT: as of 2017, most of the information seems to be missing from the link above (Programmer's Heaven), so the only reference seems to be OpenWatcom's documentation and some old open-source software.

Viktor Latypov
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  • The "this tutorial" link is broken and Programmer's Heaven excluded themselves from the Wayback Machine. Could you either provide an updated link or provide sufficient information for me to search one out? – ssokolow Dec 19 '17 at 09:10
  • I've edited the answer - looks like there is not much on PH right now. Last time I've used Watcom was before 2000, so no further information from my side. – Viktor Latypov Dec 23 '17 at 15:09
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    I've been poking at the x2ftp mirror you linked. Is [this](ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/programming/mirror-x2ftp/watcom/wat_tut1.zip) the inline assembly tutorial you were intending to direct people to? – ssokolow Dec 24 '17 at 01:22
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    x2ftp/watcom/fatmap2.zip contains Gouraud.cpp with some inline assembly. It's not a documentation, just a how-to which can be modified/adapted. I cannot remember the exact reference, most of my knowledge came from reading sources and asking people around. – Viktor Latypov Dec 24 '17 at 22:20