ASM Uni Course

[Amiga1992]

I''m up for that, i'll log into the IRC in the coming days.

[BippyM]

Cool, i'm with the missus tonight and work tomorrow but should be around sat/sun etc

any news?

[BippyM]

I reminded him yesterday.. fingers x'd lol

[Apollo]

Originally Posted by Akira

I know i am a complete newbie (hence my interest in this thread), so I don't understand a thing. ;(

I guess the difference between platforms is the memory map?
But the "language" itself (mnemonics etc.) remains unchanged as long as it's 680x0, 65XX, etc...
?

Though the posting is older I try to give an answer.

No, mnemonics are maybe similiar but not always the same. I'll give an example. Lets compare these instructions :

680x0:
move.l #42,d0

x86:
mov eax,42

Both instructions put the value 42 into a register but then the similarities end.
a) you use the 32-Bit version of the move command on 68k Assembler with the ".l" postfix (there is also the ".w" postfix for 16-Bit and the ".b" for 8 Bit operation, on Intel its been defined with the use of the "EAX" register. There is also the EA-Register (16 Bit) and the A-Register (8 Bit), all are the same (strange if you ask me, but that's for historical reasons of the x86 family)

b) source and destination are swapped. With "move" you always put the value of the first parameter into the second one, the same is valid for adding, subtracting etc. Overall its valid for the whole 680x0 family. On Intel its vice versa : with "mov" you put the second value into the first one, hence the register is first (again very strange for me, but hey, I grew up with Motorola CPUs).

These are just two but very basic differences. There are some more. By learning Assembler of a specific cpu you learn the philosophy of the design.
But : If you know the machine language of one cpu family, then its much simpler learning other cpu families as well. Things like binary logic, cpu flags are the same for all cpu's (at least the ones I know of).

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by bippym

I reminded him yesterday.. fingers x'd lol

Hi bippym,

Any luck with obtaining the asm course yet?

[musashi5150]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Any luck with obtaining the asm course yet?

I don't think you need it Thorham

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by musashi5150

I don't think you need it Thorham

I suppose I don't, but a universisty course should make for a nice read