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I grew up "before Internet", so no quick download, and also when I was about 15, 16 years old, I played a bit with Assembler. I had a book about Assembler but
by _trampeltier 2y ago
I grew up "before Internet", so no quick download, and also when I was about 15, 16 years old, I played a bit with Assembler. I had a book about Assembler but no Software, so the only way to do something was with the Debugger from DOS. You wrote the program direct to the RAM. You could not use marks, so you had to calculate each jump. A lot of crashes but still fun times :-)
- jasonjayr 2y agoI downloaded the "Ralph Brown Interrupt List" in the "before internet" time, from my local BBS. IIRC, the whole thing took about a week or two of effort on my 2400 Baud modem, and limited phone time. With it, I was able to write a mouse "driver" in QBasic, that I used for my HS programming assignment -- we had to prompt the user with math problems and then read the input back. I implemented a "simple" text GUI with mouse support. I was a bit of a show off back then..
- rep_lodsb 2y agoRBIL is great, I was lucky enough to find a version of it (and the A86 assembler) on a shareware CD back then. Original download site still exists: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html