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Getting started? Follow these steps

1. Go to Hutch's site http://www.movsd.com/ and get MASM32 (MASM specific) and the Iczelion tutorials for MASM32

   This is the NEXT STEP in rapid assembler code development, Version 4 has its own code generator to create basic front ends in less than a minute, it has it own extendable library with full source code for efficient modular code design, it includes WINDOWS.INC version 1.12 that Iczelion has just upgraded and MASM32.HLP has a new section for pentium optimisation from an anonymous author on the net as well as the reference for the procedures contained in MASM32.LIB.

   This version has its own LIB.EXE, DUMPBIN.EXE and EDITBIN.EXE with source code so that the full capacity of LINK.EXE can be realised. Clive Turvey has given permission to include his latest version of DUMPPE.EXE with MASM32v4 which is set up to disassemble your EXE file directly from the editor. All you need to do is unzip DUMPPE.ZIP in the BIN directory.

2. Get the WinDbg debugger.

   Read the help file, play around, setup a workspace do all the tutorials from MASM32.

3. Read all the back issues of ASM Journal and its message forum leaving the non-32 bit and *nux stuff behind.
   
4. If you still have questions, go to http://win32asm.cjb.net (or http://203.157.250.93/win32asm/ or http://www.hutch.ukshells.co.uk/iczelion/) Iczelion's Win32 Assembly HomePage The Official HomePage of #win32asm: Tutorials, basics, VxD, direct draw, winsock, links to everywhere. Then post a message on The message forum for Win32Asm Programming or to the eGroups forum at http://www.egroups.com/group/win32asm/

• http://www.intelligentfirm.com/asm32.htm and http://www.intelligentfirm.com/cpl32.html
• Lord Lucifer (aka Bill) was at: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/corel/378/win32asm/ and is now at http://thunder.prohosting.com/~asm1/ which can be reached by http://billwin32asm.massmind.org or http://asm.tsx.org
  • Calling COM from MASM also in AsmJournal #4
  • Implementing COM objects in MASM(MASM specific)
  • objbase.inc: prototypes for the COM library functions, as well as some interface declarations
  • shlobj.inc: prototypes for the various shell functions, as well as for the shell namespace com interfaces.
  • guidgen: output GUID's in assembly language format
• Microsoft Win32 API online documentation or the Borland Win32 API reference to download more detailed descriptions.
• AWIN Nice replacement for Make: Will scan your assembler source file, use specially-coded comment lines to create .RC and .DEF files, and call the assembler, linker, and RC program to produce an executable program file from a single program-specific source file. (With A86 source)
• WALK32 This programming toolkit is designed for the experienced ASM programmer who not only wants to casually write some assembly code, but instead aims at building large projects in all assembly language.
• Clive's Windows Source http://www.tbcnet.com/~clive/vcomwinp.html Windows Source version 3 works with V Communications' Sourcer, version 6.51 and later, to produce commented disassemblies of Windows 16 & 32 bit executables, dynamic link libraries (DLLs), device drivers, and 32-bit virtual device drivers (VxDs).
• http://www.iseran.com/Win32/FAQ/faq.htm
• http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone5/index.htm Code, tools, librarys, etc...

Tricks:

• in a batch file, you can do ;@<command> and MASM will ignore the line but the command line (don't say DOS) interpreter will excecute the command. One file can be the source code and make batch file. First line is ;@GOTO :MAKE if you want the make batch at the end.

See also:

• http://www.oopweb.com/Assembly/Documents/Win32ASM/Volume/win32asm.htm
• http://www.thetutorialspot.com This is a great tutorial board I came across while looking for some help and they were very helpful.+
• asmsource.8k.com Lots of assembly language examples here.+
• http://www.ronybc.8k.com Win32 codes in MASM by ronybc - SparcZ: Winsock example opens CDROM door via Telnet, Fireworks with MMX bluring effect.. etc +
• Randall Hyde's Assembly Page - not win32asm specific but just so damn good it sould be linked everywhere! Includes:
  • The Art of Assembly Language Programming
  • Assembly Lanugage Programmer's Style Guide - (MASM specific)
  • UCR Standard Library for 80x86 Assembly Language Programmers
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/visualc/vccore/_core_win32_topics.htm
• http://www.godevtool.com/ Good beginning overviews, links, and tools.
• Under the Hood What the compilers actually generate
• Greythorne http://home.sol.no/~reopsahl/files/assem.htm by Greythorne the Technomancer (very slow server) SoftICE'95 Handy Windows Breakpoints (WIN32API.TXT
• Whiz Kid: Win95 Assembly by G. Adam Stanislav of Whiz Kid Technomagic. MASM examples of CRC32, poligon analysis, timers, mouse, bitmaps, clipboard, Graphic Counter Language, CGI, directly calling win external functions (vice invoke)
• Chris Dragon http://zp.ite.pwr.wroc.pl/cdragan/ Assembly Journal Mirror , 3D, Fractal, Filesystem, uP ID/Benchmarks, XP Player, Descriptor Table Viewer, SDK and DirectX Includes.
• Ron Thomas http://www.rbthomas.freeserve.co.uk/ Ron Thomas GIF viewer, tons of little graphics demos, self publishes a book "Graphics Programming using Assembly" for $17.50 USD
• Corn Soup http://cornsoup.cjb.net/
• Mamon http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/lycos/403/ excellent tools/links page and a newer one? http://www.eccentrica.org/Mammon/assembly.html PE file format tutorials, links, reverse engineering
• http://members.xoom.com/DaGuzzet/index.htm
• http://members.tripod.com/~ladsoft/winasm.htm TASM specific mostly win16, one win32 on Profiles, MDI, scrolling and menus.
• Dolphinz http://personal5.iddeo.es/ret007ow/ TASM font tricks, resouce meter, PE checksum
• Henry Takeuchi http://www.eskimo.com/~htak/win95asm/win95asm.htm TASM buttons, menus, dialogs,
• rudeboy http://shell.puter.net/~rudeboy/ a few demos, tab controls, checksum
• http://ghettographics.org/mpr/hacks/mgrep.c.txt JIT-compile ed-like regular expressions to i386 code.
• Steve Gibson http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm Author of SpinRite? Hello! Demo programs
• http://willow.canberra.edu.au/~tp963323/mirrors/win32asm.cjb.net/winsock.html Win32Asm Winsock programming. http downloader sample.
• http://www.opferman.com some tutorials in the Dox section, 3D asm in the Source Code section.
• http://www.fastsoftware.com/Code.htm game programming
• http://bizarrecreations.webjump.com/ DirectX OpenGL, how to write one program for dos/win32
• http://i.am/MrCrimson (partial cache 20011211142246 ) WinHelps for Win32 programming: OLE, TAPI, Setup API,  OpenGL, Multimedia, WinSock
• http://deadlyzone.virtualave.net Excellent tools (most for cracking but usefull for debugging)
• http://protools.cjb.net/ not legal to download tools from here!
• http://www.phrozencrew.com/win32asm.htm email program?
• http://pluto.spaceports.com/~titiasm/samsrc.html Code library.
• http://www.titiasm.cjb.net/
• http://www.forthinc.com/Content/Products/SwForth/SwForth.htm Win32 Forth!
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ernies_world/ Excellent leading edge work on COM, Activex, scripting, and debugging.

Books

• Graphics Programming using Assembly by Ron Thomas for $17.50 USD
• The Waite Group Win32 API set
  • Windows 95 Win32 Programming API Bible from the Waite Group
    Manditory. You must have this book. Well worth the money.
  • Windows 95 Common Controls & Messages Api Bible; Richard J. Simon
  • Windows 95 Multimedia & Odbc Api Bible; Richard J. Simon(Editor), et al
  • The Waite Group's Windows Api Bible : The Definitive Programmers Reference; James L. Conger
• General Purpose Api Functions (Osborne Windows Programming); Herbert Schildt, et al
• Windows Assembly Lanugage & Systems Programming by Barry Kauler ISBN:0-87930-474-X
• Writing Windows VxDs & Device Drivers; Programming Secrets for Virtual Device Drivers; Karen Hazzah
• Systems Programming for Windows 95 (Microsoft Progamming Series); Walter Oney
• Windows Internals : The Implementation of the Windows Operating Environment (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series); Matt Pietrek
• The Undocumented PC : A Programmer's Guide to I/O, Cpus, and Fixed Memory Areas; Frank Van Gilluwe
• Writing Windows Virtual Device Drivers; David Thielen, Bryan Woodruff
• Assembly Language : Step-By-Step (Coriolis Group Book); Jeff Duntemann

Questions:

• wadrspam at spamadinet.com.uy asks:

  Can someone help me width this code :
  
  void __inline * memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t size) {
  bprintf("memcpy(0x%x,0x%x,0x%x);\n",dest,src,size);
  __asm__ (
  " push %%esi \n"
  " push %%edi \n"
  " push %%ecx \n"
  " mov %0, %%esi \n"
  " mov %1, %%edi \n"
  " mov %2, %%ecx \n"
  " push %%ecx \n"
  " shr $2, %%ecx \n"
  " rep movsl \n"
  " pop %%ecx \n"
  " and $3, %%ecx \n"
  " rep movsb \n"
  " pop %%ecx \n"
  " pop %%edi \n"
  " pop %%esi \n"
  : : "S" (src), "D" (dest), "c" (size)
  );
  return dest;
  }
  
  I never saw before a inline assembly wrote in that way. ( width %, $, \n and between "" )
  and i specially can´t understand this
  : : "S" (src), "D" (dest), "c" (size)
  
  thanks a lot
  

  it is assembly using Visual C+++

Comments:

• With the src coming before the dest and the $ preceding immediate values and the % in front of registers it looks like assembly code int AT&T asm language syntax+
• 12/21/02
  Ref: http://www.sxlist.com/techref/language/asm/win32asm.htm
  
  The link in paragraph 4 "Microsoft Win32 API online documentation..."
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/psdk/psdkref/alphafunc_3bjm.htm
  is incorrect.
  
  The new WIN32 API URL is
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winprog/winprog/windows_api_reference.asp
  
  Andy+

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