Im CONFUSED
I am trying to learn assembly with no good results. I looked at the assembly pay but saw programs with none of that in it. why?
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i need help learning asm
My advice if you want to learn assembly is don't.
I'm kidding; however, I don't suggest you use this site to learn. Tibasicdev, while an extremely helpful community, seems to be held in an anti-assembly sentiment (even though many programmers today originally learned the trade by programming these exact Z80 processors in assembly, before Basic existed, of course). There are a few assembly codes in the site, but usually they're just designed to be called by other programs for specific use (such as inverted text, or home screen manipulation).
What you need is an assembly language documentation, something that will show you all of the commands and their syntax. I've done some searching and found that ticalc.org has a good number of them. I'm not sure what device you're trying to program, so choose the one you want.
This link has Z80 documentation
And this has it for the MC68000 (68k)
Ironically, I actually learned assembly (the long, arduous way) from TIBD. I had almost no computer or internet access, so I went a few months playing with the hex codes I found here until I slowly started figuring it out. I do not recommend learning that way. I will say, contrarily, that it was really neat when I made a BASIC program create assembly opcodes (here is the punch line) before I understood assembly. That is some major irony. The program was called ASMDRAW and it let you draw a picture using inverted and black rectangles that you could run as an asm program. It was typically smaller than a picture.
I made a compiler in BASIC o.o I just realised that o.o
Z80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
Although this is a site about TI-Basic, we definitely support assembly programming and using assembly to supplement and enhance your TI-Basic programs. I think what Ekkos is referring to is more about the fact that there simply isn't many assembly programmers on the site.
As far as learning assembly goes, there are a few resources that I would recommend:
- Learn TI-83 Plus Assembly In 28 Days tutorial by sigma
- Patai Gergely's tutorial (I forget the name)
- Hot Dog's assembly tutorial
- z80-Heaven wiki
- WikiTI
I do try to help out with coming up with assembly opcodes, too (if you browse through old topics, you might run into a few more complicated one). If you need something small and specific and I am not around or don't notice, you can always feel free to email me or shoot me a PM with a link to the question/request :)
EDIT: I am one of those "not many" XD THough when I am here, I try to encourage more BASIC programming than I normally do >.>
Z80 Assembly>English>TI-BASIC>Python>French>C>0
I'm just gonna start a thread where you can post your assembly opcodes.
/forum/t-438592/im-confused#post-
