What sort of projects have been made in MASM32?

[Lonewolff]

Hey guys 

I'm interested to know what sort of projects people have made in MASM32.

Has anyone taken on any large scale projects like a game or anything like that?

I've been working on a game on and off for a year, and am intrigued with the thought of taking on the task in MASM for the 1337 factor.

[Siekmanski]

Answer : 1,7,191,1337

[Lonewolff]

Bingo! 

[Raistlin]

Wrote a complete GUI- client, server, maintenance back-ends, reporting platform & xml parser, integrated accounting package interfacing (Pastel)
in assembler for an exchange  company/bank reporting to the South African Reserve Bank a couple of years ago - all of it could
fit on less than a stiffy disk - graphics and all. Could navigate (slide-bar) through 4900 records (typical monthly invoicing load)
in less than a second on a crappy PIII, 256MB RAM. People (programmers and system developers/consultants) thought I was crazy...
but shut up quickly when they saw the performance. Was developed over 6 months - which was typical for the same project using
other programming development platforms.

So large projects can and should be done in assembler - I don't care what the critics say, I know it's do-able for any purpose.
(PS: I am skilled in  11 programming languages (mostly all dead languages now) - the only one that sticks around through all the decades is assembler)

<edit - yes I'am an assembler zeolot>

[avcaballero]

Lately it seems that it is fashionable to make calls to virtual machines, which in turn call the operating system, with the loss of time and effort involved.

I think one of the big "problems" to write assembly code is that it can be fine-tuned almost to exhaustion, leading to significant loss of legibility. But the assembler could and should be as readable as any other.

It is not written in MASM, but I think a good example of a major project in assembler may be the MenuetOS operating system.

[BlueMR2]

Has anyone taken on any large scale projects like a game or anything like that?

I've been working on a game on and off for a year, and am intrigued with the thought of taking on the task in MASM for the 1337 factor.

I started a game in MASM32...  Took awhile to get started just because of my lack of knowledge of the Win32 API.  Previous games had been in C on DOS.  If I knew the API better I think the level of effort would be comparable.  Asm vs. C isn't a big deal.  The Win32 API is more complex to deal with, but you can also offload more.

However, what I underestimated is how much time I have available once getting married.  Once I get done working, take care of the car and house repairs, household chores, well, there's no time left to do any coding.

[Vortex]

Hostile Encounter :

http://oby.ro/rts/index.html

[jj2007]

Many people here have written their own editors in assembler, RichMasm in my case. Afaik qEditor is written in assembler, too.

[avcaballero]

By the way, here some small programs that I made using mainly asm. Some tiny games included.

Regards

[BogdanOntanu]

Besides Hostile Encounter RTS game http://www.oby.ro/rts/index.html that Vortex kindly mentioned above,

I have also made in asm:
- Solar OS  - http://www.oby.ro/os/index.html
- Solar Assembler: http://www.oby.ro/sol_asm/index.html
- Sol_Ray a mini ray tracer test: http://www.oby.ro/sol_ray/files/sol_ray_2006_07_31_bin.zip

Others well known projects made in asm:
- RadAsm asm IDE (made in MASM)
- FASM assembler
- Menuet OS x32 and x64
- Kolibri OS (Menuet fork)

[Oliver Scantleberry]

Wrote a complete GUI- client, server, maintenance back-ends, reporting platform & xml parser, integrated accounting package interfacing (Pastel)
in assembler for an exchange  company/bank reporting to the South African Reserve Bank a couple of years ago - all of it could
fit on less than a stiffy disk - graphics and all. Could navigate (slide-bar) through 4900 records (typical monthly invoicing load)
in less than a second on a crappy PIII, 256MB RAM. People (programmers and system developers/consultants) thought I was crazy...
but shut up quickly when they saw the performance. Was developed over 6 months - which was typical for the same project using
other programming development platforms.

So large projects can and should be done in assembler - I don't care what the critics say, I know it's do-able for any purpose.
(PS: I am skilled in  11 programming languages (mostly all dead languages now) - the only one that sticks around through all the decades is assembler)

<edit - yes I'am an assembler zeolot>

Actually, its assembly. Assembler is the program that processes the assembly code. Funny that you don't seem to know that.

[Biterider]

Hi
Some time ago and together with some good friends of mine, using ObjAsm32 we wrote 3 projects:

• Two modules for a well-known multinational 3D Software Design company
• An effect synthesizer for a CGI animation company
• A special cam math module for a Swiss/German engineering company (patent pending)

Biterider

[Raistlin]

@Oliver :

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Actually, its assembly. Assembler is the program that processes the assembly code

Yes but there's only one MASM is'nt there <zeolot look>   :shock:

[jj2007]

using ObjAsm32 we wrote 3 projects

Compliments, you confirm that assembler has its uses in really professional projects :t

(and I suspect that many video and audio codecs are written in assembler, too...)

EDIT: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index - have a look at rank #12, it's the biggest winner this time!

[Raistlin]

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EDIT: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index - have a look at rank #12, it's the biggest winner this time!

WOW! - thanks jj2007 - I'am definitely showing this to my students  :t