Assembly Language Step-By-Step
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| mrider Jan 19, 2015 12:05 PM EDT |
Hands down, the best book for actually understanding what is going on inside the computer when you write assembly language - and by extension any programming language. If you in fact plan on reading one of the books in that article, then I cannot recommend highly enough that you read this first. It will provide groundwork that will make it much easier to understand those books. It's *hugely* out of date. But it is still head and shoulders above anything else I have ever seen. Hopfully an amazon link... The link is so long that I don't know if it will work or not. But one can find it on Amazon (after having followed the link on the front of Lxer :) ) for an extremely reasonable price, $11.99 brand new. ISBN: 0-471-57814-2 |
| Koriel Jan 19, 2015 2:29 PM EDT |
This is what I started with way back in the day Mastering Machine code on the ZX Spectrum http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000237 Then I made my way up the ladder from there to other 8 bit micros MCS51 series then onto Z280 & z380, x86 etc. I still have my copy to this day in fact i'm caressing it right now as it and the ZX Spectrum pretty much made me what I am. Edit: I remember my x86 introduction vividly as it was a nightmare, I was pretty much dropped in at the deep end and told to start swimming, my x86 knowledge at this point was slim to none and I had to fix and modify a TSR (Terminate Stay Resident) comms app anyone remember them :) Cheers |
| JaseP Jan 19, 2015 7:00 PM EDT |
NASM/MASM is a world of difference from what assembly programming used to be in the early 1980s... With modern IDEs it's almost a high level language these days. Back in the day, you had to do by hand, a lot of the things that modern compiling tools now do for you. I tried my hand at 6502/6510 assembly, back in the day, but gave it up. When I recently learned x86-32bit assembly, it was a world of difference. I enjoy the low-level stuff though. |
| Koriel Jan 19, 2015 7:32 PM EDT |
I still have a copy of Masm 6.11 somewhere but haven't used it in donkeys, I still do some legacy work on Z280 micro-controller based data acquisition boards for a UK company which is mostly a mix of C & Assembly and surprisingly they still perform damned well to this day. But now that I'm semi-retired and a stay at home dad I pretty much go with the easy option of Java application development as a hobby. |
| gary_newell Jan 20, 2015 4:32 AM EDT |
I still have that book (Mastering Machine code on the ZX Spectrum). I never did master machine code on the Spectrum though. I did manage to complete all the levels of Manic Miner without losing a life though. |
| Koriel Jan 20, 2015 8:50 PM EDT |
To this day I have never completed Manic Miner, I did complete Head over Heels though. |
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