How to execute code

[DaoK]

Ok, I just came out of the store with my assembly book ( for the next session ). I want to start now instead of waiting the class so I read about 50 pages and now I want to try some code. I have read the FAQ but I do not see how work the free program A86 or something like that ?

Anyone can just give me some step and tell me how it work ?

And my second question is, I have Microsoft Visual Studio... any program there that I can use to use Assembly code ?

Daok

[DaoK]

I can not imagine that 7 persons have look and did not reply that basic question

[Dillinger4]

You said you have Microsoft Visual Studio...
The only place that i know of where you could use assembly code is Visual C++. (just run it inline).

I have the A86 assembler also and it's not to bad to run a program. Do your code in notepad and save it as .asm. Then at the dos prompt type in A86 progname.asm this will compile your source code. Then to run your code just type the name of the program. ie..... HelloWorld.

[DaoK]

ok Dilenger you help me so much in Java and now in Assembler THX YOU but it's still does not work check my screenshot :

[DaoK]

	jmp	start
Message1	db "Hello World!$"

start:
	mov	ah, 09h
	mov	dx, offset Message1
	int	21h

	mov	ax, 4c00h
	int	21h

That the code I have in test.asm

[ChimpFace9000]

Your running "aw *.asm". He said to run "a86 *.asm".

[DaoK]

I do not see a86 program in the a86 folder... only alink.exe aw.exe gorc.exe

[DaoK]

ok I have downloaded the good thing and now all work, Thx you

[Dillinger4]

No problem. Just don't ask me anything about assembly code.
It's all greek to me.

[DaoK]

At school they asked us to buy a book of about 450 pages. ( Pages are small. I have read about 100 pages in about 5-6 hours and I just do not understand at all lol I hope that the teacher will explain us better that in that book.

Assembler look great but are completly different as VB

[Dillinger4]

Yeah assembly is cool to learn but i just dont see it being a main course in a college since most people are either not going to be able to grap the concepts of assembly or are just going to have a hard time at it. I would like to go for a degree in computer science but from every collage ive seen so far they offer C++, Assembly, and high level math. That's it. I went to a local technical school where 90% of the people in my class couldnt grasp Visual Basic and Java.

[plenderj]

Well in my first year in college, when most people could not construct a for loop in java, we started doing assembly for the motoroal M68K, and I loved it. Its really cool