From: messianic light on
I have used nasm on 2 computers, but I am looking for professional
resources
what is best asm programming package for pentium and above?
does pentium asm code correlate with AMD processors?

thanks in advance
From: Evenbit on
On Jan 23, 8:13 pm, messianic light <damianjohnbr...(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> I have used nasm on 2 computers, but I am looking for professional
> resources
> what is best asm programming package for pentium and above?
> does pentium asm code correlate with AMD processors?
>
> thanks in advance


All the resources you need:

http://faqs.org/faqs/assembly-language/x86/general/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language

http://del.icio.us/evenbit

Nathan.
From: Frank Kotler on
messianic light wrote:
> I have used nasm on 2 computers, but I am looking for professional
> resources

Yeah, my friends tell me I need professional help, too. :)

> what is best asm programming package for pentium and above?

RosAsm. Or HLA. Or maybe Gas. A highly contentious question, around
here! Depends a lot on what you want to do with it. Your posts in
c.l.a.x. indicates you want to write a 64-bit GUI OS... as soon as you
figure out how to plot a pixel in mode 13h. I think if you ask in
a.o.d., they'll tell you to write it in C - gcc, probably - load it with
GRUB, and skip the nitty-gritty stuff. However, it sounds like you
*want* to get into the nitty-gritty stuff. For that, I honestly don't
think you can do too much "better" than Nasm.

> does pentium asm code correlate with AMD processors?

Generally, yeah. There are a few exceptions - I'd consider them fairly
"exotic". For an OS, though, identifying the CPU is probably one of the
first things you'll want to do, so you'll be learning all the gory
details as you go along...

Did you get that pixel plotted?

Best,
Frank
From: messianic light on

>
> Did you get that pixel plotted?
>
> Best,
> Frank

I didn't get the pixel plotted as I wavered away from it as I bought
an electronics kit today and I have done almost 20 projectswith it
which has took my time, but I am waiting to get a new system to build
from scratch and get things going from there

all the best
Damian