Re: Which assembler (or compiler) to start with? (newbie question)



On Dec 26, 12:58 pm, Marion <mche...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,

I'm going to be taking assembly next semester and I'm bored here
during Christmas vacation (imagine that). :p

So, I thought I'd teach myself assembly and get a jump ahead in my
class and searched Google for free assemblers and lo and behold!
There are so many of them!

FASM, MASM, NASM, HLA...it's frightening. I thought it'd be an easy
thing to find and choose but not after reading the descriptions I
thought I should start with MASM then eventually do NASM?

Assembly is pretty universal in commands, aren't they? Does it really
matter which one I start with? I am a newbie just wanting to get
familiarized with the language and its' intrinsics (well the
elementary stuff anyway.)

Any advice is appreciated.
-m

i was 'forced' to use TASM (16bit x86 platform), but i suggest doing
NASM.
.



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