Questions tagged [assembly]
Assembly languages in general, of any architecture. Use with the particular processor’s tag as appropriate.
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Way to implement multi threading on a MOS 6502 type CPU [closed]
I'm trying to write an OS for the W65C02 CPU but i'm stuck because I have no idea on how to implement concurrency on such old CPU.
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Assemble a program for UNIVAC 1108
are there people here who can assemble such old programs? I have only 2 such codes that I would like to assembly but I don't know how. Is this even possible? 1 Link: https://web.archive.org/web/...
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How can a dummy learn assembler? (IIgs) [closed]
I would like to write some interesting programs in assembler but I don't know where to start and how to do it. I would like a guide in simple language for dummies. Does anyone have a list of such ...
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How to read/write tapes from PDP-11 on assembly?
Ok, I know this is a very old computer but just for fun. I have figured out how to read keyboard (0177560 for checking, 0177562 for reading) and print it (0177564 for checking, 0177566 for writing). ...
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16-bit comparisons setting both zero and carry flag on 8080/Z80
I have a routine cpBCHL that compares the contents of BC and HL and returns the carry set appropriately: ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ♠BCHL ♣A ♡* ...
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Space Invaders ships remaining not initialized
I'm referencing this Space Invaders code. (I'm porting this to another processor and I'm trying to understand it.) The p1ShipsRem variable doesn't seem to be initialized, but it is tested early in the ...
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How was the first ever IBM PC BIOS image created? Can this process be replicated today?
According to dosfan, there are three known production versions of BIOS for IBM 5150 with the following datecodes: 04/21/81, 10/19/81 and 10/27/82. I am specifically asking about only the first one (...
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Did any processor (ISA) ever exist which didn't have well-defined signed overflow?
The C language always labelled signed overflow/underflow of integers "undefined behavior". I usually argue and say that this is an artificial construct created by C. On the assembler level ...