Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch
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HN comment orderBeing self-taugh I decided what better way to learn programming than starting with the basics?. Assembly was my first language, I could read and program in it so I considered like I knew the language. It wasn't until I created a sinple 8086 emulator where you take the raw machine code instructions and translate those into not only the assembly instructions but actually emulate what those instructions do that I finally felt like I REALLY knew assembly. My suggestion to…
This is more like "by communicating with the X server", which is not exactly the level of "from scratch" I was expecting, but then again, it's more involved than the equivalent in Win32 that's not much more than filling in some structures and invoking a few functions.
Too Complex, Did Not Learn. Learn X86-64 assembly with MSDOS Debug instead: c:>debug -a 07BE:0100 MOV AX,1 07BE:0102 ADD AX,2 07BE:0106 -G106 AX=0003 BX=0000 ..
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-01 | Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratchFirst breakout · Best thread | thunderbong | 638 | 146 |
| 2025-03-27 | Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch | ibobev | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-09-12 | Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2023)Latest 20+ point return | ibobev | 263 | 27 |