10-21-2026, 12:53 AM
(10-18-2026, 01:10 PM)VinnyVideo Wrote: I have some serious respect for people who can wrangle ASM like that.
Yeah, ASM can sometimes be tricky, a way to tame it is to choose a good assembler with a nice syntax and macro features. My first contact with ASM was when I was applying custom patches in SMW, I didn't understand the code itself.
In the university I had contact with MIPS Assembly in the Computer Architecture course, and quite honestly I didn't like it, the problem is that it doesn't have the status register, and it has a weird concept of delay slot. Instead of MIPS Assembly they could teach 6502, Z80 or 8086 Assembly.
Now today I know the concepts about addressing modes, the registers themselves, the program counter, the stack pointer, the status flags, branches and jumps, learning Assembly is easier when you know these concepts.
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