AsmLib has a lot of updates and this is a discussion of the window functions. Two new library directories were added: dcache and vt. Each directory handles a...
Hi all, The web page has been updated... see http://linuxasmtools.net For awhile the web page had a fast library called AsmLiba, but this was eliminated and...
Hi all, This is a ramble about various assembler activities. My goal of developing a high speed event model for assembler programs failed. One Linux "man" ...
Hi all, The new version of nasm fails with asmtools compiles. I have not tried to fix the problems yet, but here is what I've seen so far: 1. all the...
Hi all, The following short program demonstrates direct kernel calls (avoiding int 80h). For assembler programmers this appears trivial, but it appears to...
Hi all, I've given up on the "pthreads" model used by "C" programs. There are simple methods to do threads that are a little slower. One way to do it on...
asmedit, asmplan, asmproject, asmview and asmide leaves the console screen blue after its use. the problem corrects itself when a command with color is...
Hi All, this is a review of current projects The terminal project is being tested. The goal of this project was to create a terminal widget that programmers ...
Hi, This is a discussion of windows in Linux terminals. I've been testing the fast cached dislay and a problem surfaced. Many debuggers don't show the app...
Yo! The web page has the latest asmliba (event library). It includes a template for creating programs with lots of comments. The template actually runs so it...
Hi All, this is a status report I've been chasing bug, working on the AsmLiba tutor, and researching signal usage. Everything was going quiet until yesterday....
Annouce: The web page now has information on "terminfo" files as follows: AsmLib - 7 new function to access terminfo AsmRef - new section describing terminfo...
Announce The web page now has AsmLiba (fast cached display library) ant the "HOWTO do fast text displays' The AsmLiba_tutor is not available yet, but a stub ...
Here is a first draft of a new howto. The library mentioned in the howto is complete and tested, I'm now working on the tutorial. None of this is on the web...
Assembler programs released this week: http://members.save-net.com/jko%40save-net.com/asm/ AsmMgr program now has a project module with these features: *...
I'm always told how SSE2 routines always beat the FPU's hard coded routines, however i've never actually seen this quantified. Yes, SIMD is good in theory, but...
Hi All, The web page has another mini howto for getting CPU information. Also, I've updated AsmFile, AsmBug, and possibly others. If anyone is intersted in a...
Hi All, The web page now has downloads in "deb" and "rpm" formats. I still need to verify each download by installing here. That might take awhile, it was a...
Hi All, This is a rambling discussion Linux display handling. The library (asmlib) has lots of functions for handling the display and it has become a little...
Hi All, A new howto is now in "tips" section of web page. It finds the bios and prints the computer manufacturer and bios maker. Here is the text part. ... ...
Hi All, The web page now has a mini howto for reading cmos. It is in the tips section. http://linuxasmtools.net ... Reading CMOS memory with assembler...
Announce: AsmFile has been updated, the gnome-terminal and already running warning were removed. These warnings were a irritation. I've found another solution...
Terminal Review (12/2/2008) Most development work occurs in a terminal, and Llnux has a large number of terminals. This is a review of a few. All tests were...
Announce: Xhelper now includes a companion program "mouse_watch". This is a small program echo's data to a terminal. It is useful when automating X programs...
The web page has been updated with a new example for the string_form library function. It calculates fitness level from data entered on a form. See update...
Hi All, Freshmeat recently had a program "injcode-0.11.tar.gz". It injects code into a running program. The example code provided was in assembler (gas). The...
I only looked at two of them (Shortest sort and ASCII conversion), but they both have syntax errors (didn't look for all of them), but for ASCII conversion,...
Hi all, This is a report about creating a simple IDE. The project turned out to be easy and is now about 50% done. It would have been done, but a flu came...
Hi All, Hopefully these links are free of typo's Discussion of using asm in script http://trickplace.blogspot.com/2009/02/advanced-shellcoding-techniques.html...
What would make AsmIDE useful to others? I'm thinking about the next project and wondering if it should run on the console? It may be possible to create a...