Darshevo
Experienced Member
I was at a point in my life a fairly accomplished transact-sql programmer. Later I spent a third of my day within the confines of visual studio and spoke VB as fluently as english. Later it was asp/asp.net and finally Java. Now some years later after laying under one too many broken cars and swinging one too many framing hammer I am thinking I want to get back into it. Not as a professional again, my desk life is behind me. I am far too restless to sit still that long now. I picked up a C++ book a few days ago and whipped up some basic game code (guess my number) While I certainly am not going to sit down and write the front end for Halo 37 anytime in the near future, I just don't see any challenge in it. C++ was my last high level language frontier. I'd used just about everything else at some point or another.
I think maybe I want to learn assembly. I tried many years ago (like in the C64 days) and couldn't seem to grasp it, maybe because I was only 8 or 9 at the time. Sadly since then everytime I have tried to pick up ASM I seem to have a mental block.
Woohoo! My challenge
Which brings me to my question (finally) What flavor of asm should I go to work on? And how similar are they? I have C64 and 128, an Amiga, a 5150 I could get running easily enough, my 286 (my primary vintage machine), my daily user P4, etc... or should I go out on a limb and learn something more obscure like dreamcast or NES?
And once I do commit to an asm language, how similar are they from system to system? If I chose an old C= would it be a matter of syntax to apply what I learned to microcontroller programming or the 5150 at some point?
-Lance
I think maybe I want to learn assembly. I tried many years ago (like in the C64 days) and couldn't seem to grasp it, maybe because I was only 8 or 9 at the time. Sadly since then everytime I have tried to pick up ASM I seem to have a mental block.
Woohoo! My challenge
Which brings me to my question (finally) What flavor of asm should I go to work on? And how similar are they? I have C64 and 128, an Amiga, a 5150 I could get running easily enough, my 286 (my primary vintage machine), my daily user P4, etc... or should I go out on a limb and learn something more obscure like dreamcast or NES?
And once I do commit to an asm language, how similar are they from system to system? If I chose an old C= would it be a matter of syntax to apply what I learned to microcontroller programming or the 5150 at some point?
-Lance