Hi there

I have been playing with assembler for a bit time now, and finding out wich
assembler i would like to use, and the choise falled on FASM.

I downloaded the tutorial, and i will begin reading it later.
I just wanted to know, if the tutorial is enough to learn all the basics of asm? I also downloaded the FASM for Windows package, and also the DOS package. I got the fasmW working, by adding the path in the fasmw.ini file.

Now, i wanted to know how you learned assembler. Any great tutorials out there that i need more than the official Fasm tutorial? What did you use?

Thanks in advance,
Thefool

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take a look at vid's TAJGA tutorial: http://www.decard.net/tajga.php,
also, I have collected some links for newbies: http://www.decard.net/links.php,

I mainly used the Art of Assembly, both the obsolete and new version for HLA.

found here:
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/

Neither may be Fasm, but all you need to know is the basics, and this book does a good job with that.

Also Paul Carter's : http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/
PC Assembly Language uses Nasm, which is almost the same as Fasm.

thanks very much both.
I have downloaded a .zip copy off all 3 tutorials. Now i have a little to study

Thanks again.

i suggeast you to download any ASM tutorial you find, download as much examples as possible, and play with it all + try some experimenting yourself.

You can also download my directx examples in the windows forum, labeled 'Windows game programming for dummies' .
MadMatt

Well i have readen the TAJGA tutorials over 3 times ans stiil dont get a thing...

Embrance, never mind. Ignorance is widespread. You are not alone. Ok, so you have read Vid's tutorial. Good. Now, step by step, what did you not understand? Give us a page number, or a section number, and a short excerpt or quote from the tutorial, and explain to us, what it is that you find perplexing. Start at the beginning, and work steadily toward the end. What you may discover, is that you are not the only one who has difficulty understanding the FASM documentation. Writing an instructional guide is VERY DIFFICULT. The author must be able to envision difficulties he/she did not himself/herself experience. If one looks at the world wearing ONLY blue spectacles, it may be difficult to detect subtle color changes. So, help us out here, tell us EXACTLY what it is that is problematic for you. regards, tom

this is mainly assembly tutorial, not FASM tutorial, and it is very far to be complete. Unfortunately it seems there still isn't any tutorial for FASM language. But anyway, FASM is still best assembler, and it is easy to use some MASM tutorial for learning FASM, these languages are very similiar, except

MASM "mov eax,[name]" is FASM "mov eax,[name]" it is same here
MASM "mov eax,name" is FASM "mov eax,[name]"
MASM "mov eax,offset name" is FASM "mov eax,name

Also look for IczLions tutorial if you want to learn windows assembly.

Don't you mean FASM:"mov eax, name"?
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No worry, typos happens to us all

yes, sorry, i will fix it

tom tobias descried it greatly. You will also help me to improve hard-to-comprehend parts for other users.

Embrance,
there is a windows' specific fasm tutorial but is under construction. Find it here:
http://as.modshack.co.uk/tut01en.html

And please report any obscure or confussing things. With the help of everybody we could get improved (and translated) all Fasm documentation.

You might want to have a look at MadWizard's "Win32asm basic tutorials", http://www.madwizard.org/dl.php?file=tutors.win32asm - it does a pretty good job at explaining the basics (masm style, but again - not too hard to translate)

I will check the tutorials,and post later the problems with the othe r tutorial!

This tutorials seemed quite nice.Didnt bothered to read it all due to some things i gotta do.
However here are several things you have in ind to make a GOOD tutorial...

1)Make it simple to read.
Dont start maiong apps...
Exaplin some stuff...
Explain how a PC works and what can ASM do...
SHow how someone could print sometext into the screen,,
How to get input and such.
Explain every commands,dirctives etc.
Not just "push" does that or this,but give several SIMPLE examples on how using it.
my 2 cents!

Wouldn't it be good to have a tutorial designed specifically for people coming from a specific HLL, like C or Pascal? My guess is that most of the people here didn't start right away with FASM, so all the tutorials which are designed for people who have never programmed before are a bit of a pain to wade through.

A nice tutorial would be one which shows code segments in C and shows how the same thing would be done in FASM, like so:





(I hope I did that right)

Here's (very basically) what I feel I need to know to be relatively proficient at using a language:

1. How to create, access, and manipulate variables.
2. How to output text to the screen.
3. How to input text from the keyboard.
4. How to control program flow (in FASM, jumps).
5. How to read and write to files.
6. How to parse and manipulate strings.

Here's what I feel I need to know to be very good at a language:
7. How to output graphics from a file.
8. How to draw graphics.
9. How to use the GUI fully.
10. How to make programs secure.
11. How to access databases, networks, and the internet.
12. How to do pauses (pauses to wait for input, pauses for a certain amount of time, pauses to loop a certain action until a certain key is hit, etc.).

By these standards, I'm not "very good" at any language, (though I'm close with Java and C++). In FASM, the only parts that I am functional in are 1 and 4. I need to be able to do at least 1-6 by the end of August, because I signed up to do an independent study course in FASM (it's amazing what I put myself through for 5 measly credits). I'll be expected to know the language passably by then, and my first project will be to create a compiler for a rudimentary HLL.

you meant

or

Eh? I thought mov took the second parameter and copied it into the first. If it doesn't then what does it do?

You can't use MOV to copy one memory location's value directly to another memory location. It does copy the second parameter to the first, but it's can only handle register->register, memory->register, register->memory, or value->register type operations.