wraggster
October 5th, 2012, 10:56
http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/zx-spectrum-coding-tutorial-e1349365534468.png?w=470&h=183
It can be really hard to warm up to coding in Assembly. But this tutorial looks to make it understandable and (almost) easy. It focuses on programming a game for the ZX Spectrum (http://chuntey.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/tutorial-zx-spectrum-machine-code-game-30-minutes/). But you won’t need the hardware on hand as you can just use the ZX Spin emulator as you work your way through the code.
Ostensibly this is a 30-minute tutorial but that’s a gross underestimate. We finished a cursory read of the tutorial and the building blocks are certainly clear and easy to understand. But we like to make sure we understand every line of code and plan to spread that out over the coming weekend.
The first chapter eases us into machine code by combining it with a bit of BASIC. You’ll see how to manipulate the ZX Spectrum memory and then pluck that value back out into the BASIC program. But once chapter 2 hits it’s pretty much all assembly from there on out. The nice thing is that as you go along you learn how the hardware works and there are quite a few references to pages in the manual so you can do some extra learning along the way.
http://hackaday.com/2012/10/04/try-out-your-assembly-and-basic-skills-with-a-zx-spectrum-project/
It can be really hard to warm up to coding in Assembly. But this tutorial looks to make it understandable and (almost) easy. It focuses on programming a game for the ZX Spectrum (http://chuntey.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/tutorial-zx-spectrum-machine-code-game-30-minutes/). But you won’t need the hardware on hand as you can just use the ZX Spin emulator as you work your way through the code.
Ostensibly this is a 30-minute tutorial but that’s a gross underestimate. We finished a cursory read of the tutorial and the building blocks are certainly clear and easy to understand. But we like to make sure we understand every line of code and plan to spread that out over the coming weekend.
The first chapter eases us into machine code by combining it with a bit of BASIC. You’ll see how to manipulate the ZX Spectrum memory and then pluck that value back out into the BASIC program. But once chapter 2 hits it’s pretty much all assembly from there on out. The nice thing is that as you go along you learn how the hardware works and there are quite a few references to pages in the manual so you can do some extra learning along the way.
http://hackaday.com/2012/10/04/try-out-your-assembly-and-basic-skills-with-a-zx-spectrum-project/