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[mikepurvis]

Hi,

First posting, mainly just following instructions as I'm not a bot or spammer.

Anyway, I'm hear because I was playing around with Masm32 and couldn't believe how simple it was to open a MessageBox in the Hello World example. I havn't touched assembly since 1995 and then ony wrote 2 small proagrams to school. 1 to light letters and numbers on a circuit board, and 1 to read in and save a .wav file from a microphone on a circuit board (That one never quite worked right). I'm a Software Engineer and primarily use C#. I want to learn Assembly for real, for a varity of reasons. The main one is to be able to write better performing code in a HLL, but a secondary motive is to make a small video game in assembly, just for fun.

[dedndave]

welcome to the forum, Mike   :U

[hutch--]

Hi Mike,

Welcome on board. You should enjoy assembler programming, its very high precision and generally both fast and economical if you get it right and it does leave you with a different mindset for your high level code. Managed code is a somewhat different brain but precision and economy will always be useful and where you need performance you can cross over to hand written assembler code to fill that gap.

[Punjacker]

First posting- Just to confirm that I am not a bot not a complete human either... so I believe I belong here =) lol.

I am mainly interested in Reverse Engineering and have recently started learning assembly language. I had no idea which assembler to choose, was confused especially between NASM and MASM but have finally decided in favour of MASM32.

Apart from Reversing, I am also interested in Malware Analysis... especially viruses and rootkits. I believe I have a lot to learn here and in the process might be able to contribute a little. In short; please don't delete me. =)

Cheers ...  :boohoo:

[hutch--]

Punjacker,

Thanks for posting but you are in the wrong place here, neither reversing or malware technology is allowed here as we have no way to determine the good stuff from the crap. We will help you with assembler programming but neither reversing or malware topics are allowed at all and no help will be given to any topic that smacks of either.

[Punjacker]

I do agree, I am here only to learn assembly.  :8)