hillmiester Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Does anyone know assembler? One of my mates needs some help with a small project. Cheers for time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 don't you basically just use assembly for writing viruses and basically not all that much else. what kinda project is your friend doing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 You use assembly: - When size matters a lot - When speed matters a lot - While making certain device drivers (not so true anymore) - For bootloaders - When school says you're supposed to use ASM. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillmiester Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 The project I am told involves a xb360, you do not need to have one tho. if someone knows how to code and use it then contact me and I will put you in touch with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 For the original XBox you needed the SDK which was hard to come by (i.e. pay Microsoft a lot of money, or get a ripped release which was at the time hard to find). When you had it you could just develop in MSVC++. Only problem was that the resulting app only ran on chipped XBoxes. To get it to run everywhere you needed to get Microsoft to sign your executable, which again costs a LOT of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy© Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Only problem was that the resulting app only ran on chipped XBoxes. To get it to run everywhere you needed to get Microsoft to sign your executable, which again costs a LOT of money. *cough* softmods *cough* - no seriously I have a cough/cold - in the summer! - LMAO Oh and you can add Bios code to the Assembler list and pritty much every device no OS exists for no? Edit Oh and the Xbox softwareis written in C me thinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Oh and you can add Bios code to the Assembler list and pritty much every device no OS exists for no? Not a clue what you're saying here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy© Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Oh and you can add Bios code to the Assembler list and pritty much every device no OS exists for no? Not a clue what you're saying here... Oh I just meant isn't assembler used to write for most ARM processors... ah never mind sorry cannot think straight :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillmiester Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 lol. I believe its something to do with firmware on DVDs etc. Not too sure as Im not really interested in this project, just he a mate and asked if I knew anyone who could code and understand assembler. I thought if anyone could code assembler and understand it they could be a hak5 fan :P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrytone Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 I know Z80 assembler. Don't think that will help somehow, though :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonysathre Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Why would he have to write it in ASM? Is this some kind of project for school that requires him to write it in pure Assembly? Here's a good site for information and help on ASM: http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm If he wants to learn ASM tell him to get a debugger and disassembler such as IDA Pro, and run it on some native Win32 applications and follow some guides from my link on how to write applications in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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