H2D.com with FASM source code. use16 286

Syntax= H2D FFFFFFFFh
Enter a Hexdecimal number.
Displays a Decimal number."
Dwords, using 16 bit 286 code.
By Bitdog

include "GMHD.inc" ; Get Memory Hex Dword, (ascii chars into Dword DX:AX)
include "WDD.inc" ; Write Decimal Dword in DX:AX (code from stackoverflow)

MS DOS couldn't print a TRUE 32 bit decimal number using 16 bit code,
but here it is, in a CALL able PROC form you might find useful.

Does it assemble to the same code ? What OS does it run on ? Suggested improvements ?

PS. if you have a problem with me or anything I'm doing, please PM Private Message me.
I will try to get a reasonable fix for us.

H2D.zip Version 1.01 downloaded 87 times.
This Version 1.02 fixed PUSH POP DX in signed code. JMP BYTE changed, Print AL or AX added.

I would like to add a word about proper attribution.

You have your program display the text "By Bitdog & Peter Cordes".
I reviewed your files and must conclude that nothing originates from the actual person Peter Cordes, that is active on the Stackoverflow forum. It is a different Stackoverflow user from whom that you are borrowing code snippets (included their comments).

I happen to know (and respect a lot) Peter Cordes, and I think he would be displeased seeing his name mentioned in assembly code that explicitly disregards his many marvelous teachings: e.g. how you validate the hexadecimal digits is so not Peter Cordes.

I hope you do realize the importance of proper attribution, and I also hope you keep up the good work of posting interesting assembly programs. I for one like to read those a lot...

SeproMan from Belgium says: I would like to add a word about proper attribution.

You have your program display the text "By Bitdog & Peter Cordes".
I reviewed your files and must conclude that nothing originates from the actual person Peter Cordes, that is active on the Stackoverflow forum. It is a different Stackoverflow user from whom that you are borrowing code snippets (included their comments).

I happen to know (and respect a lot) Peter Cordes, and I think he would be displeased seeing his name mentioned in assembly code that explicitly disregards his many marvelous teachings: e.g. how you validate the hexadecimal digits is so not Peter Cordes.

I hope you do realize the importance of proper attribution, and I also hope you keep up the good work of posting interesting assembly programs. I for one like to read those a lot...


Bitdog says:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67796211/how-to-display-a-32-bit-div-result-stored-in-dxax
This is one of the DX:AX print code examples by Peter Cordes on stackoverflow.com
In the future it is advised that you do some research before you lay into others.
(So I don't have to;) Please.

Then you research a bit better first...

The link that you provided leads to a post by someone named Bengisu Adsiz. It has nothing to do with Peter Cordes! (Peter merely changed the title a bit).

The code snippet that does the numerical conversion, was originally posted by Sep Roland in his Q/A at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45904075/displaying-numbers-with-dos. So if you need to attribute, then do so for the original author which is Sep Roland.

I'm not an expert on any of that stuff. What happened is I finally ran across a decimal printer that worked and got a copy working on FASM. Then instead of taking the credit for it I tried to get credit from the person I got it from.
I did not search the ENTIRE SITE to see that other posted it also. From now on I WILL NOT GIVE CREDIT to anyone so you will be happy. No wait as sec, that won't work. Hay why don't I just do the best I can as I go, JUST LIKE I WAS DOING.
What are you doing ? Don't you have better things to do that argue with someone needlessly ?
Now that I've vented, I'll check out Sep Roland and offer this as payment for your trouble.

Use AI to help write some procedures for you, here is the site, and feed it the lines below one at a time.
https://workik.com/ai-powered-assembly-code-generator
Write .ASM code for a FASM DOS 16 bit .COM that uses the 8042 keyboard chip.
Write .ASM code for a FASM DOS 16 bit .COM that issues a keyboard specific EOI to the 8042 chip
LEFT CLICK on the COPY word upper left, then paste into a file.txt
I hope that helps someone, somewhere, somehow.
PS, one of the lines I used to get code, return almost byte for byte of the code I INVENTED last month.

SeproMan says:
The code snippet that does the numerical conversion, was originally posted by Sep Roland
in his Q/A at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45904075/displaying-numbers-with-dos.
So if you need to attribute, then do so for the original author which is Sep Roland.

Ok, so I checked out your link and discovered that Sep R0LAND asked if anyone could help him print out DX:AX because he couldn't find any code for that even in R. Brown's int list,
and Peter Cordes supplied the answer.

Then the code is displayed and edited by Fifoernik
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Who probably knows what he is doing.

Then there is a line that says, answered by Sep Roland
but there is nothing above that so he must have deleted a stupid statement.

Then there is a code fix by Peter Cordes posted.

So now, I don't know what your point is ?
Do we have a language barrier problem here ?
Did they switch your meds lately ?

Maybe you are using a broken browser, because I can clearly see what is written above the line "answered by Sep Roland".



What you consider an answer by Peter Cordes is actually called a "comment". The actual answer was given by Sep Roland himself. This may seem confusing at first, but it is a technique called a Self-answer, something the stackoverflow site promotes in order to collect well-researched Q/A's.



User Fifoernik merely edited a couple links to wikipedia. You can easily verify this for yourself if you click on the word "edited". It will open up the history of all the edits that the post received. There can be no doubt that the original answerer is Sep Roland and that it is Sep Roland "who probably knows what he is doing."



Please keep it polite! The real problem is that you don't understand enough of how the stackoverflow site works (or else, like I said above, that your browser isn't rendering everything correctly and you don't see every piece of information).

SeproMan needs to read his private messages. & since he didn't, there is this.

SeproMan says:
I happen to know (and respect a lot) Peter Cordes, and I think he would be displeased seeing his name mentioned in assembly code that explicitly disregards his many marvelous teachings: e.g. how you validate the hexadecimal digits is so not Peter Cordes.

Yet Peter Cordes is all over the postings for the code and so SeproJERK doesn't know Peter Cordes, or anything about him, yet he claims that he is good buddies with him and can read his mind. So he can speak in behalf of Peter as if they are twin brothers. Yet he didn't even talk to Peter Cordes about this.
SeproMan is an IDIOT, and he trashed my post for nothing. For months he refused to read his private messages and solve problems like an adult. Now there is THIS.

Is this really the hill you want to die on? Just admit that the attribution was incorrect and move on. Even if Peter Cordes did write the code in question, that wouldn't make him the author of this program, since the contribution was completely unrelated.

Looking at the sheer vitriol expressed above, I can see why.

I don't want to die on a hill, and that is my point.
People trash my post when they could do proper problem-solving.
SeproMan should have contacted Peter Cordes before he spoke in his behalf.
Then the truth is Peter is all over the code posts. He is not separate like SeproMan says.
Of course I don't know who wrote the code, but it looked like Peter did so I tried to give him credit.
As I would try to do the right thing for you also, even if you are a total jerk.
I still don't know if the attribution was correct or not, so I just removed Peters name from my post.
They posted the code for others to use and it was unusable, so I made it usable, and available over here.
That is all I did. I made sure it was clear that I didn't write the code.
ENOUGH ABOUT ME, WHAT ABOUT YOU.
Where are your problem-solving skills when we need them?

PS none of this crap should be dumped on the post of others, my friend.
That is what PM is for.
Arguing forever is where we are at. We can do better than that,
I will delete the post here eventually and get the code out another way.