Assembly

[Madman]

As we had assembly in the topic about emu coding, here is a decent link for those who like to learn:

 

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/

 

Beware, its _very_ techie, so you may consider a high-level-language

Edited October 26, 2005 by Madman

[Lucandrake]

Since it's really hard to learn and requires more math then coding..... I'm reading a book on it right now though, well was, lost power ><.

[taratata]

Since it's really hard to learn and requires more math then coding..... I'm reading a book on it right now though, well was, lost power ><.

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You need power to read a book?

Move your lazy ass and learn maths! Not for this, for everything else. Btw it IS coding.

[Lucandrake]

No I got the book saved on my comp, im not wasting $60 on a book that I can get online ^.^

[Madman]

Dont learn it. You dont really need it, unless you want to code emus for real.

[Lucandrake]

Ugg, I would like to...

[ken_cinder]

Being able to program in assembly is not a neccessity to writing an emulator. Understanding assembly, especially for a specific machine, will certainly aid in ones understanding of the machine in question though.

 

Assembly is nothing more than human readable machine language. Binary representation using symbols. Thus, understanding the assembly language of a given machine, would give you more insight into how the machine actually works.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_Language

 

If I am not making sense or something, forgive me......I just had 4 impacted wisdom teeth removed Thursday afternoon and I'm heavily medicated right now lol

[Agozer]

Most *older* (if not all) console games are written in Assembly, as well as the console's CPU instructions.

 

Yes, knowledge of Assembly is not necessarily required to write an emulator, but understanding it makes it a lot easier to understand how data is processed in the hardware and how "machine-code" works.

[Lucandrake]

I'm just trying to learn it since gunz is programed with it

[taratata]

I'm just trying to learn it since gunz is programed with it

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Fool.

[Weirdy]

are you sure the whole thing is?