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Code rendering of Mandelbrot set doesn't match instructor image, and I can't understand why
This post is a direct continuation of this post from a few days ago.
I'll quickly explain the premise:
We're using DOSBox with the 8086 package and MASM, and we have a small exercise in assembly ...
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Render of mandelbrot set not fitting what the instructor showed and I can't locate the discrepancy
We're using DOSBox with the 8086 package, and we were have a small exercise in assembly language. We were supposed to print to the screen (of the DOSBox) an approximation of the Mandelbrot set with ...
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Stuck on Second Stage Bootloader – Turbo C + TASM + DOSBox + QEMU Setup
I'm working on a retro programming project and running into trouble with my bootloader setup. I'm using:
Turbo Assembler 4.01 for the first-stage bootloader (x86 Assembly)
Turbo C 2.0 for the second-...
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Where can I assemble my assembly file aside from TASM that supports .STACK
I am just following the book from my university to run this simple code I found as an example for my coding practice. I am new to assembly language.
The problem is that I only know how to assemble in ...
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Switch text mode to video mode in assembly
I have a project I am doing in assembly. I am making a kahoot style quiz game in x86 assembly, running it in DOSBox.
I made the entire thing with no graphics but I need to make it with graphics so I ...
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387 FPU instructions to load to stack not doing anything?
So I'm coding some stuff in assembly (TASM) for DOS with DOSBox (long story short: for our assembly course assignments the professor says we need to use an environment from the 90s for some reason, ...
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Assembler step-mode interrupt handler
I am writing a step-mode interrupt handler in x86 architecture assembler and can't figure out how to find and print out mov byte ptr [bx] and bx registers.
So far i have this and in theory it should ...
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How to set/force EXE stack size with 1988 Turbo C 2.0 for a reverse engineering project
i try to reconstruct a Turbo C 2.0 DOS small-memory-model executable C source exact-as-possible from disassembly (its an DOS reverse-engineering project and im using IDA Pro disassembling and UASM for ...
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The DOS program seemingly ignores the 'print *' instruction?
This simple program (16-bit assembly using debug on FreeDOS, code below) expects a one-digit integer. It stops if the integer is either 0 or >1. If it's 1, it generates a new line, prints '*', then ...
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Resident Program structure and logic
Using 8086 microprocesor and DOSBox.
This resident program is done with those 2 commands:
TASM.exe program.asm &
TLINK.exe /t program.obj
Why is it not working when I run another .exe which has to ...
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Multiple counts of "Invalid combination of opcode and operands" error
I have written an assembly program that sorts an array using bubble sort. I am getting errors.
This is the full code:
org 100h
section .data
array db 5, 3, 7, 1, 4, 9, 2, 8, 6
array_size db 9
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Procedure for printing numbers doesn't work
I'm working with TASM (in DosBOX emulator).
I'm a beginner and I don't know much yet.
Below is my full code. The problem is that it prints out not just expected output (25 + 10 = 35 and 25 - 10 = 15) ...
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Swap 2 lines in text file using assembler
this is my code for swapping 2 lines in DosBox assembly. I can not find out why is it printing the same thing from input.txt to out.txt. I think the problem is with line numbers (and user input). ...
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Swap 2 lines in text file with assembler
could someone provide an example how to swap 2 lines in txt document using assembly? I would be using it as an example, because right now i'm able to copy contents from one txt file to another, but ...
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Replace digit with a word and write to a file using assembler 8086 [closed]
I'm writing a program that converts digits into words and also writes every other character unchanged to output file. But for some reason the output buffer overwrites characters on top of each other.
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