johnfound

This information is really 10 years old now. In novadays, because of new advanced tools and libraryes, the assembler becomes very good language for applications writing as well (and HW drivers, OSes etc.). Actually, now the assembler beats many HLL's with its very high speed and small application size. The main problem of assembler programming - slow creation of the programs is already in past - now the assembly programming is almost as rapid as any HLL like VB, VC or Delphi. And the things becomes better and better. Regards

Come on! SoftIce is system level debuger. It is really very powerfull, but IMHO, the user interface is as bad as possible And actually I know only few legal reasons to use SoftIce on regular basis... and it is not free.Olly debuger, on the other hand, is application level debugger, that is free of charge and is very, very powerfull too. Its code analyzing features are really great and actually it is the only debugger that you need if you debug your own applications under Win32. Regards

Hi. The main Win32 assembly tutorial is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (Iczelion tutorials) Actually these are tutorials that returned assembly language in the novadays application programing. Unfortunately, they use the microsoft assembler, that is little bit outdated now. In the last years, a bunch of new assemblers grows and now there are several very serious communities of assembly programmers out there. You can take a look at my favourite: "Flat assembler" aka FASM. It works on Windows, DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, MenuetOS, BeOS. It is fully assembly written, self compilable and portable. It compiles very fast (actually maybe FASM is fastest assembler in the world now). It optimize the code to make programs smaller: The main site of FASM: http://flatassembler.net/ The project FRESH: http://fresh.flatassembler.net/ - This is modern RAD IDE with built-in FASM compiler. Fully assembly written, self compilable. Now in pre-alpha stage, it already have a lot of features. The site about assembly programming and tutorials for FASM: http://decard.net/ The site of pelaillo about assembly programming: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Main flat assembler message board: http://board.flatassembler.net/ Regards