Art of Assembly and HLA

[filcher]

Hi,

I'm interested in learning assembly, but I'm slightly confused about how to go about this. I see that the book "The Art of Assembly" is highly recommended by pretty much everybody, so I thought this would be a good place to begin. However, upon skimming it briefly, I noticed it puts a great deal of emphasis on HLA. Is this emphasis only at the beginning of the book to make it easier to "get into" assembly and then it goes on to teach "regular" assembly, or does it use high level assembly throughout the entire text? I'd rather not use HLA, so if it does use it through the entire book, are there any recommended books that DON'T use HLA? Or any other expansive texts explaining good old fashioned assembly with MASM32?

Thank you for any input, and hopefully I've made some sense.

[dedndave]

try Iczelion's tutorials...

http://website.masm32.com/iczelion/iczelion.zip

if you install the masm32 package, the help, tutorials, and examples subfolders have a lot of info, also

[jj2007]

See also the Help and Tutorials para here.

[hutch--]

filcher,

It has a bit to do with what you want to do, HLA comes well recommended but it does not teach you how to write MASM. Without extolling the virtues of one over another if you want to learn mnemonic coding ALA masm, start with masm, if you want HLA and perhaps later use an assembler, try HLA but note they are not the same thing.

[filcher]

Oh wow, I completely missed the tutorials directory when I installed MASM32. *coughs* There does appear to be quite a bit of reference material there.  :red

Thanks for the help, everyone! This all looks very useful.