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Z80. I found it so much easier to program (while hand-assembling using a printed opcode table) back in the 80s. Also, ZX Spectrum all the way ;-)
by nanis 10y ago
Z80. I found it so much easier to program (while hand-assembling using a printed opcode table) back in the 80s. Also, ZX Spectrum all the way ;-)
- stevekemp 10y agoI also got started writing assembly by looking up opcodes in the back of the orange-book which came bundled with my 48k Spectrum. Writing programs on paper, and filling in the offsets for (relative) jumps once complete. Happily the format of z80 and Intel assembly were very similar, so I didn't find it hard to move to PC-stuff when I arrived at university. (Not a surprise given where the Zilog developers came from.) Z80 was the first assembly language I wrote in, and even if I mostly just hacked games for infinite lives I had a lot of fun doing so. Cracking protections on tape-based games was a challenge without the internet, but the lessons learned eventually applied to PC-stuff when I discovered +fravia. (Though we don't talk about that kind of thing any more ;)
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoMan, all of us 2000s kids really missed out on this sort of thing. It was hard to get into programming, much less assembler: nobody even knew how. I eventually picked up a "For Dummies" book that taught be the basics, and worked my way up from there. First Python, then a touch of Ruby, and then some Scheme, and a bit of C. I picked up shell and Unix along the way.