Re: A83: learning asm


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Re: A83: learning asm




Sounds reasonable.

Linus

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On 11-Feb-99, Olle Hedman (oh@hem.passagen.se) wrote:

>Yes you didn't know z80..  but you was not new to assembly programming in
>general! thats a big difference between you  and the average ti83
>coderwannabe.
>I did something like you. checked through the instructionset for tha z80 and
>began codeing right away..
>The thing with you and me is that we already knew how to code asm, before..
>The average "I want to program for the 83"-guy has never written any asm and
>doesn't have that basic knowledge.
>For them, Matthews tutorial and such is a good resource.

>//Olle

>Linus Akesson wrote:
>> 
>> Not that I wanna be regarded as the surly hermit, but reading James'
>> tutorials isn't the only way... I haven't even peeked at them (oh, well, I
>> might have - but then I didn't come anywhere near _reading_ them). From
>> knowing absolutely nil about Z80 assembly language a year ago, I looked
>> through the official z80 specs and the documentation from TI. Then I wrote
>my
>> first program, a menu-based program locker/unlocker, without a link cable
>> (thus I had to rewrite all of it whenever it crashed. =)).





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