ASM

the screen light of my portable pc is off
i have a "Compaq Presario 700" it seems that the beck light of my screen is off this is not the first time that happen this the last time not remember how i turn it on i think it is not an hardware problem but a software one the light back the screen is always off from bios run at start of the pc to the end ... 19 Dec 2007 11:56

read-write file operations and socket
what do you think about unified socket and file read-write operations? [in Windows] Do you like my read-write routines for socket and files? with this i can open a 2 way stream thype and write in socket like they are 2 files one for input and anhother for output -------------------------------- the OS api de... 23 Dec 2007 22:22

Beth aka "BethStone21"
Hey all !! I was wondering if anybody knows what happened to Beth ?? He / She used to be on here all the time providing good asm advice and lenghty insights into various philosophy material... not always related to the main topic but always interesting to read ;) Dominic Grosleau Ontario, Canada ... 19 Dec 2007 21:30

When a computer start
That's Intel. That's because the Intel EPROM boot code is switched in first, before being switched out again. There was a time before EPROMS. I used Nixie tubes and double triodes before there was even ferrite core memory. I used to walk into a Mercury Star holding boxes of replacement valves ("tubes") before a... 29 Dec 2007 21:12

TASM (Borland, v3.2) read floating point number from file
Hello all, Could you help me with this kind of situation: I am using Turbo Assembler v3.2 on x86, DOS (Windows). I have a list of numbers on a text file in a way like this: <number1>;<number2>;...;<numberN> But I ran into a problem - how could I read a <number> and convert it into a floating point number.... 9 Dec 2007 23:43

list directory entreis..
hi all, i wrote this app to list all the files in the current working directory under linux. however when i run it it displays different files for each dir., but always wrong. for example when i run it in / it output: # ~/listd .. dev # But real contents of / is much more. again when i run it in /usr/shar... 9 Dec 2007 23:43

keyboard/mouse programming
s> int *f(int x) s> { s> return(&x); /* this address points to storage local of f() */ s> } s> s> such a returned pointer is ... invalid, RP> False, not in agreement. The pointer is valid. A pointer RP> can point to anything. The value from the derefenced RP> pointer is invalid. RP> [...] it can be re... 9 Dec 2007 23:43

unix to dos eol conv.
hi all, i did this to convert LF sequence to CRLF from stdin to stdout. it appears to work okay. when cpu execute neg eax instruction is code below and eax is 0, will it remain unchanged? or it becomes -0? anything else i do in error? thanks. ; lf2crlf.asm - convert LF to CRLF; from stdin to stdout section... 9 Dec 2007 23:43

FASMLIB-0.8.0 is out
FASMLIB is general purpose library for x86 32bit assembly programmers. It is portable across Win32 and Linux-i386 platforms. Supported assemblers are FASM, MASM, NASM/YASM. Changes Since 0.7.0 (briefly): - qword conversions added - HTML documentation added (on request) - some changes / improvements / fixes h... 9 Dec 2007 23:43

simple read char app return wrong value?
Hi group! so i decided to go with nasm and linux. after reading some portion of PGU i decided to write an app to read a character from keyboard and exit. so here is the code: ; readc.asm - read a character from standard input and exit. section .text global _start _start: mov ebx, 0h ; sta... 9 Dec 2007 23:43