Becasue I think that fasm is better, and fasm is selfcompiling. Which means that I can port fasm to BOS much easier. With NASM I would have to port GCC first.
No real assembler should be made in C...
It shouldn't be to hard to use the new sources with NASM, just use version 0.02 and add on the new parts. If anyone is having trubble getting some source to run in NASM I'll try to help.

/ Christoffer

no self respecting asm programmer, would use a assembler made in C

If I'm away from my x86 systems (say on the AIX box I'm administrator of which uses a PowerPC chip), I use nasm simply because it will run on a non-x86 architecture. Since I spend about half of each day working on this box, I refuse to be without useable tools that I'm familiar with. So there [i]are valid reasons to use an assembler written in C in some cases[/i].

In that case you could use a PowerPC assembler instead.

Not if I'm cross-assembling 

crc wrote:

Not if I'm cross-assembling 

Then you are one of the very few that should use nasm, everybody else should use fasm (becasue it's nicer).

Not quite.. YASM has 64-bit support, but like NASM it's written in C.

No problemo..

You may be forgiven if you change to fasm in a hurry...

lol, ok :-) (well, maybe I'm planning it to write for FASM, since I want to compile it from my OS itself :-))