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Title: Is masm the easiest out of all assembly languages?
Post by: gelatine1 on October 16, 2015, 11:28:09 PM
Hello
So I was reading some example code of other assembly codes and I was thinking these other assembly languages looked harder because they require to set up the data segments yourself and with those interrupts?  On the other side I feel masm is quite similar to c++ and the others aren't.
Am I wrong about this or not? Just asking for opinions..
Title: Re: Is masm the easiest out of all assembly languages?
Post by: dedndave on October 17, 2015, 04:00:26 AM
that has nothing to do with the assembler that is used

you are looking at old 16-bit DOS code
segmented memory models, and INT's instead of "named" API functions

even though it may look more difficult, it was actually easier
there were maybe 200 or so DOS and BIOS function calls - you could almost memorize all of them

but, the results were far less spectacular - lol
and, not nearly as powerful
(single user, single task, text mode unless you write all the graphics, limited to 640K RAM)