Taking a stroll into Assembly Land...
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:40 am
Hi, this is my first topic on the forum (although i've been posting replies for a few weeks now)
I was just wandering, how would you go about at least attempting to diving some 86x assembly?
I've recently been doing a little bit of simple assembly for the Acorn RISC computer at college (we have an old machine in the corner of the room), which infact has a built-in assembler (no linker is required, as I believe Acorn machines only use interpreted code, but i'm not sure on that, at least you can write BASIC, with jumps to assembly programs pretty easily)
I'm just wandering where someone would be able to get ahold of a decent assembler and linker, and if anyone knows of any decent references to assembly code on the x86 platform?
From searching and googling, I haven't had much luck, i'm under the impression that people don't really use much assembly under x86 anymore, probably because of the variety of development tools available at a higher level.
I just kinda want to learn a little more about assemblers and assembly code, my A-Level computing books go only so far, since I would kinda like to try out some of the examples.
Any Advice is greatly appreciated
I was just wandering, how would you go about at least attempting to diving some 86x assembly?
I've recently been doing a little bit of simple assembly for the Acorn RISC computer at college (we have an old machine in the corner of the room), which infact has a built-in assembler (no linker is required, as I believe Acorn machines only use interpreted code, but i'm not sure on that, at least you can write BASIC, with jumps to assembly programs pretty easily)
I'm just wandering where someone would be able to get ahold of a decent assembler and linker, and if anyone knows of any decent references to assembly code on the x86 platform?
From searching and googling, I haven't had much luck, i'm under the impression that people don't really use much assembly under x86 anymore, probably because of the variety of development tools available at a higher level.
I just kinda want to learn a little more about assemblers and assembly code, my A-Level computing books go only so far, since I would kinda like to try out some of the examples.
Any Advice is greatly appreciated