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   Herbert Kleebauer to paul   
   Re: beginner assembler for windows?   
   20 Jan 21 17:03:47   
   
   From: klee@nospicedham.unibwm.de   
      
   On 20.01.2021 14:04, paul wrote:   
      
   > Just as a person can hike an existing trail that someone else dug out and   
   > put all the steps and bridges and maps in place years before, I just want to   
   > "walk the trail" of an existing assembly language programming tutorial.   
      
   I suppose, you are joking. It's like asking for a tutorial to write   
   a German novel, but refusing to first learn the German language. You   
   don't need instructions how to put an empty sheet of paper into the   
   typewriter and how to transfer letters to the paper as long as you   
   don't understand the language you want to use for your novel. But   
   if you refuse to learn German, you can write the novel in English and   
   use Google to translate it to German.   
      
   So, start to read the few thousands pages of documentation I gave you.   
   And once you have understood them, you can start to read the additional   
   10 pages how to use the assembler to generate a binary from your source   
   code. But if you refuse to learn the assembly language and the OS interface,   
   you can write your code in any HLL and use an automatic translator to   
   convert it to assembly code (called compiler). But that has nothing   
   to do with assembly programming.   
      
   An other way to start assembly programming would be to not use an   
   x86 CPU and Windows 64 but a simple micro-controller with no   
   OS at all (like AVR). The instruction set is much simpler and there   
   is no OS interface to understand, so you can start programming after   
   a few hours reading the processor manual. And in this case you will   
   also find the sort of tutorial you want.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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