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Can anyone recommend me a good beginners book on beginning assembly?
Is it a must to know assembly on top of c to get a job as a game programmer?
Edited by - Xyan on December 11, 2001 8:48:32 PM
Edited by - Xyan on December 11, 2001 8:48:59 PM
I cannot remember where, but you can find in the internet for free one of the best books on aseembly language by Michael Abrash: The zen of assembly programming or something like this. I *think* that assembly language is not a requirement anymore for the game industry, altough is a desired skill. Try to search that book in Google, I think it´s really good.
I recommend the art of assembly.
Just search for art of assembly on google. Its free and very informative in my opinion.
Just search for art of assembly on google. Its free and very informative in my opinion.
Check out "DEbugging Applications" from MS Press. Great book with a good asm section focusing on using asm in debugging. If you want to sit down and crank out lines of asm, this might not be your best book.
Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with DOS and Linux, 2nd Edition by Jeff Duntemann is a great book. Assembly is the driest subject matter you could possibly read about, but the author has a good sense of humor and makes the book fun to read. He also covers stuff like how processors and memory work, which is also help to know.
Art Of Assembly is easy the best assembly book for beginners and advanced asm programmers. It covers anything you could need. Here's the link:
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/ArtofAssembly/ArtofAsm.html
There's also some good tutorials on this site:
http://spiff.tripnet.se/~iczelion/
and this forum is often helpful if you have any problems:
http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/
Knowledge of assembly is not essential to get a job in PC game development, but I think it is quite vital for console programming. Either way it is highly sort after as knowledge of assembly quickly improves your HLL programming too. As for real books, I dont know any worth their price tag, but I learnt everything I know about asm from those sites - so you should be able to learn from them.
Hope Ive Helped,
Crash,
"We Must Move Forwards NOT Backwards, Sideways NOT Forwards And Always Twirling Twirling Towards Success." - 2000
"If You Keep Looking Forward Your Gonna End Up Looking Backwards At Yourself Running Sideways!" - 2001
Edited by - crash on December 12, 2001 12:03:58 PM
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/ArtofAssembly/ArtofAsm.html
There's also some good tutorials on this site:
http://spiff.tripnet.se/~iczelion/
and this forum is often helpful if you have any problems:
http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/
Knowledge of assembly is not essential to get a job in PC game development, but I think it is quite vital for console programming. Either way it is highly sort after as knowledge of assembly quickly improves your HLL programming too. As for real books, I dont know any worth their price tag, but I learnt everything I know about asm from those sites - so you should be able to learn from them.
Hope Ive Helped,
Crash,
"We Must Move Forwards NOT Backwards, Sideways NOT Forwards And Always Twirling Twirling Towards Success." - 2000
"If You Keep Looking Forward Your Gonna End Up Looking Backwards At Yourself Running Sideways!" - 2001
Edited by - crash on December 12, 2001 12:03:58 PM
Doesn''t the book depend on what type of ASM you want to learn? x86? MIPS? PowerPC? StrongARM? UltraSparc? etc?
Edem Attiogbe
Edem Attiogbe
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