New to asm!

[xoreaxeax]

I've been teaching myself some windows assembly for the past couple months using masm, but it seems fasm has quite a more active following, any reason to stick with masm or should I switch over?

[Jim]

Hi xoreaxeax, welcome to the forum!
I can't think of any reason to stick or change...
Microsoft will help you coding Windows, FASM maybe help with other things and be more up-to-date.
Jim

[benny!]

  xoreaxeax

[jace_stknights]

  and I will say: eor.l d0,d0 

[maracuja]

Welcome 33C0 :-)

[egons]

i do not like FASM for windows. Masm is good

[Jedi]

Old thread, but I'm also new here and in the same boat. Learning some Windows assembly to code some demo effects. I chose assembly because that's what I've been using on other platforms. I've read a couple of books and done some simple utilities so far. I feel okay with the assembly language and studying OpenGL at the moment. Oh, for the record I use MASM.

[spathi]

I have been relearning 6502 assembly after 35 years.  How much harder is x86?

[Moroboshisan]

Old thread, but I'm also new here and in the same boat. Learning some Windows assembly to code some demo effects. I chose assembly because that's what I've been using on other platforms. I've read a couple of books and done some simple utilities so far. I feel okay with the assembly language and studying OpenGL at the moment. Oh, for the record I use MASM.

have you taken a look at hitchhikr OpenGL examples?

[Jedi]

Yes, I've been studying some of them already, but thanks for the suggestion.

[rain_storm]

I have been relearning 6502 assembly after 35 years.  How much harder is x86?

Not harder just different. But for 32 bit x86 you must also learn the OS ( Win32 API, or Unix ) so this will slow you down.

It may be easier to learn x86 under DOS first and then take on Win32. Or learn Win32 from a HLL and then start learning x86.

Also iczelions tutorials are a great starting place.