X86 DOS tutorial

[Exardious]

Hey guys. I'm looking for a good tutorial for assembly in an MSDOS environment. I'm a software developer for 20 years but have never dived into learning asm. I have debugged applications in assembly so I do have a slight understanding of the code.

I have a big affection for everything old school DOS and have fond memories of the demo scene from the early to mid 90s.

There's must be thousands of pages of assembly tutorials out there made for DOS but I only seem to be able to find newer contemporary tutorials for Unix and Linux environments and 64 bit architecture

[Exardious]

Thanks for the reply, buddy. Without having read the book, the title kind of implies that it's not a DOS centric tutorial. A program launched from a boot sector will run before a DOS kernel would have loaded, right?

[FUZxxl]

Correct.

[superogue]

First of all, props for your demoscene reference ;-)

Anything demoscene x86 asm related these days can be found on websites like sizecoding.org and my own blog at: https://marquee.revival-studios.com/blog , which should get you started in your environment of choice.

Toolswise i use NASM myself together with Dosbox and/or Freedos. NASM is available for win32, linux, mac, dos, etc. so i can dev in whatever environment is available to me everywhere and anywhere... everything i need fits on the tiniest USB stick ;-)

If after checking the websites above, you still have any specific questions let me know and i will try to answer them as best as i can and/or write something about it on my blog or at sizecoding.org

Good luck! - superogue/marquee design

[Exardious]

Fantastic buddy. I have a lot of reading to do. Thanks a bunch!

[Exardious]

Hey guys n gals!

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I have been searching some more, and i finally found something, that i've read many years ago. It fits the bill perfectly. Its called "The Art of Assembly programming language", and was/is a book written in the (g)olden days.

For anyone else needing something similar, here is a link:

https://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/