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This is a NASM/DOS newbie question about PROCEDURES (NOT macros). It seems to me that the problem with creating utility procedures to be placed in libraries and utilized in various mainline programs, is that it would appear to be impossible to have any transparancy. Every time you utilize a...

Thanks! BagelBob

I'm writing some practice programs for 16 bit NASM and begin my housekeeping as follows: ... mov ax,initdata ;move segment address of initalized mov ds,ax ;data through ax to ds. mov ax,stackseg ;move segment address of stack through mov ss,ax...

To Wody and Sarnath: Thank you ladies and/or gentlemen; I think I have resolved the problem. I may have been (I hang my newbi head in shame) misspecifying the output format as bin and nasm, thinking I was trying to create a COM file, didn't like the segment names or the start label. My IDE...

To Twistor: Actually, both. Here's my current problem. Attempting to assemble a simple, sort of "Hello World", program, the NASM16 assembler is telling me that my segment names are "unrecognized" and that my '..start:' label is an 'unrecognized special symbol'. O.K., so...

I'm trying to learn NASM, starting with 16 bit DOS, but I'm not having much luck with sources. The official NASM site has a beginner's site, but it doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions? I would hate to waste peoples' time posting beginner questions on a pro site. Any references...

I'm as nubie as nubie can get - if I told you my background you wouldn't believe it. If you think my querry would best be answered by "reading a good book", I would appreciate an Author, Title, Publisher and Copywrite. Similarly, if you know of a tutorial which would answer the...