Im reading alot of books about ASM and trying to get deeper into the language. But now and then I think about the following: What will I do, once I "know" ASM? I always wanted to code a small chat programm for my home network and for lans. But now comes my question: How hard is that? How much knowledge is required? (I mean a VERY SIMPLE chat tool) And what would be the best way to realize?

Thx

As an ultra simple chat program you could give Quetannon a try. Set one instance to listening mode and use the other to connect to this listener. Studying this example and looking more resources on Internet is a good start IMHO.

Here a screenshot as an example:


The example is more like a p2p chat though, but it is better to start undestanding this first before moving to a client-server model like IRC protocol.

This is a good read: http://www.madwizard.org/programming/tutorials/netasm/

Thanks. How hard would you rate a programm like that? 1 to 10 (10 is the hardest)

One thousand with no doubts

Now seriously It is not very hard, but the "difficulty score" varies with each person, I would rate it with a 6 for a medium to low scale subset of the IRC protocol with single chat room server and client (my score suppose decent implementation, not just good enough to work on a never failing nor hostile environment). What do you think guys?

is it possible to use quenaton to connect two distant computers?

a sort of IP hYp€rt€rminal.

if it is possible, i want to try before to give an opinion.

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It is possible. Quetannon is like a Hyperterminal on steroids: it can listen for incoming TCP connection on particular port as well as connect. Hyperterminal can only connect AFAIK (TCP, for serial communications HT is quite good).

Since it is a TCP/IP program it is possible with a 100% of certainty*. Well, the "listen" could be set to hear the local network only but it is not the case of Quetannon.

*Not counting network problems like firewalls blocking traffic in the middle but that exceeds the responsibility of the program.