Heya, i am new to fasm asm, i played with hla, and win32 masm, but decided that i wanted to cover real asm, well 100% not lots of macros etc.

so i went to the most talked about multi os assembler (fasm)
unfortunatly i cannot find any tutorials for fasm com programming.

me and a friend are learning together, and are currently lost, i have found some tutorials, but they don't work,(A86 tutorials).

so i was wondering if you could give me some information

the skeleton of a com project, ie. how does it layout with data etc

in masm, on the win32 side it was .data etc

what i intend to end up with is a simple program that works like so:

1: asks the user for input
2: compares that input to a predefined value
3: if the value matches, send exit message (congratulations) then hit exit code
4: if the user doesn't enter the correct character, jump back and start again, after displaying a error message stating try again.

if anyone has a good source of tutorials, for fasm/com programming. please inform me!

thank you
Damnation

if you mean dos com executable, a fasm package of dos version has such example. com format is extremelly easy: it has to start from 100h, and will start also from 100h after loading. some dos function needed to be known to provide input/output.
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here is a (stupidiest?) example - maybe will be helpful

omg, please explain it all, i am a ultra newbie. i have no idea what it doesm i understand stuff like jmp etc. but jmp @b wheres B ?
jmp si? wheres si.

please comment it to hell IF you want.

thanx adam.

example upward is already commented - download new version. you have to read fasm manual about labels. also you have to read basics about cpu, addressing modes, dos/bios, etc. - a lot of all. si - 16-bit register in cpu. (as well as esi - si, extended to 32-bits) regards!

i would strongly recommended that you will run this program under 16-bit debugger and check each step, esp. attention to al and si registers and to flags. it will not run to long regards!

fasm manuals? are they in with the assembler or do i need to download them off the site?

basics on the cpu ? p4 manuals will they do?
omg i forgot about esi, lol what a twonk i am.

p.s. my fingers hurt, i stabbed them at work, whilst i was cutting up meat, (butcher) damn those knives are sharp, i swear i hit the bone.

sleep a little, then start tomorrow - cpu made by men, so other man can understand everything, just not whole at once
each fasm package has pdf or txt - this is exactly that manual i told.

i'll give the docs a start later, bloody gf wanted somthing, and knocked the cuts on my fingers, gits started to bleed again, i swear i have thin blood, as they seem to refuse to stop bleeding.
but thank you all so far, for all this help ok, so in reality, its only smal pointers. but damn is it helpful.

thank you once again.

let your hand heal first, just read a while! i'm not a programmer by job, so, most progs i'm 'writing' in the head while going to work or back by bus. regards!

ps. i like slow buses

Lol, well my hands partially healed, one of the cuts is on the knuckle below the knuckly u hit people with, (large one middle one) i keep knocking it, and it keeps bleeding so far this morning it hasn't.
but the other cut omfg it hurts, i took a layer of skin off, like when u doo an horrid graze. so when i put my hands in water, or i pick up bacon to cut up, or i get blood on my hands from cutting live/kidney, it stings like hell.

but thanx for all the advice, gf worked me like mual yesterday, so hopefully tonight i'll get the peace to read.

but once again thanx

well decard sent me to his site and i've looked at that and learnt a lil, i've looked at your code got stumped on lodsb, but i took a look at my "The art of assembly language", and found the lods function and found out what it does.

also just toying with the code, i tore it apart, and finally its asking for character input, it wasn't before even though i was putting the correct bios interupts etc.

i messed up somewhere, i am wondering, how do i type, but the character that the person wrote isn't shown?

so i write for example : a
but in the consol is shows : _
still waiting for a character or so the user thinks?

thank you shoorick for your example, all commented and all. i took it apon myself to try to code my own today, as i am a newbie, i am not ready for the level of simple complexity that your example contained.

fortunatly, due to posts on this forum. reading decards tutorials etc. i've been about to just about manage to code this all by myself : o).

ok its not really anything spectacular, but for a beginner i feel its ok.



any pointers on improvement. or what to attempt next, would be great.

hi, man!
i'm currently busy - just made "outlook" - i'll answer you later - mb at monday.
send empty email - i'll send you some help. regards!

int 21,8 will not print the key pressed to the screen.

See HelpPC (no Pentium stuff, though):

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/helppc21.zip)

thanx man, i will read that doc later as my gf wants on my comp.

i tried what u posted, and i feel the issue may be the fact u pointed out no pentium stuff, as i use a pentium 4. but then again fresh assembler won't compile it. meh. to the docs.

ah, after a search on a different subject, well to do with enter key. i found what u meant about int 21h,8

so, is there success?

yup, i got it to not show the character.
and i got it to exit when the enter key is struck.
next thing to tackle, is to get colour in the dos window, i have no idea how to do this yet. so i guess alot of googling will have to happen.

but so far thank you to all for the help, esp shoorick.

p.s. i didn't cut my hands today at work, they stung when i was preparing lion's of pork for cureing (bacon).
and i came home all stinky, gf is running me a bath because i smell so bad.

Butchering and programming asm seem a strange combination?

Although I have returned to asm after a six year absence I was
more interested in win32 programming. However I had thought
of translating my old DOS NASM .com programs written with the
IDE NASMIDE into FASM source code.

However unlike fasmw, which downloaded with a nice IDE I could
use to write, assembler and run programs, fasm appears to need
to be run from the DOS command line.

It only works if fasm and the source code are in the same folder.
I guess I have to change the pathways somehow with WindowXP.
Usually this is explained. I did it with NASM and WindowsMe and
then promptly forgot how ...

Also you need some kind of editor that you can enter to write
the source code and than exit to DOS prompt to assembler
and run and then enter again to edit the source again.... a
real pain which is why I liked using NASMIDE.

There should be minimal need to google. I would certainly
explain how to get color text etc. The other common DOS
mode was mode 13h for games. I even have code for a
high res vesa version of mode 13h.

You need to start writing functions that are common to
other programs so you can call them again and again:

call GetNumber
mov bx,ax
call GetNumber
add ax,bx
call Printax

And if the graphics mode 13h things like,

mov [penColor],RED
mov [xpos], 10
mov [ypos],20
mov [width],100
mov [height],50
call DrawLine

and so on... thus building yourself a nice library of useful
functions while you learn asm.

An interesting program might be one to translate NASM DOS .com
source files to their FASM equivalent.

Regards,
John Casey

email: jgkjcasey at yahoo dot com dot au