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a few quick questions about asm.
Zeit, Believe it was Masm v. 2.0. Have owned all versions of MASM through something like 6.13d. Do remember that there were NO include files containing macros for opening files, performing I/O, etc. Caution to those learning MASM, changed significantly between versions 5.1 and 6.0. Version 6.0... -
a few quick questions about asm.
Folks, Assembler is definitely a pain to write and debug. This is nothing new! Would like to call your attention to a plastic 8 1/2" by 11" card which MicroLogic sells with all the instructions explained for the Intel 8086/8088 chips. I found it to be exceptionally valuable when... -
display in Decimal
Folks, One of the major x86 Y2k glitches came from a method that was employed in a lot of software to convert two digit, positive integers from binary to decimal. Would like to add that this was the defacto method for 808x chips. On the higher chips, >80386, it was not so good because the AAM... -
Annoying Variable
You do not indicate if you had DIM'd cubicx as a single or double. I'd force it double with a: Dim Cubicx as Double Technical rationale: 1. You are close to the limit for "precision" for singles. 2. Single precision aritmetic is "seriously" affected by round-off errors...
