Ebook: Assembly language primer for the IBM PC & XT

Assembly language is the fastest and most powerful language available for any computer. It can access all of a machine's features, and it avoids the restrictions of higher-level languages such as Pascal and BASIC. Programs demanding speed or flexibility, such as graphics routines, word processors, and spreadsheets, are best written in assembly language.

Assembly language is often considered difficult to learn, but Assembly Language Primer proves this need not be true. Robert Lafore’s unique use of DOS functions makes it possible to write programs that perform interesting tasks in just a few easily understood lines. By writing those initial programs with DEBUG, and later with the IBM Assembler ASM, Lafore takes you quickly into assembly language programming, avoiding the complex overhead of the assembler and linker programs.

As you learn assembly language you'll also learn how to use the bu:it-in PC-DOS and ROM functions; how the video memory works; how to v:rite graphics routines; how to make music and sound effects; how to access the keyboard, display, printer, and disk systems; and much more.

Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC & XT is fully illustrated, contains over 100 example programs, and is completely compatible with other books in the Plume/Waite IBM Primer series.