Hello
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:02 pm
First of all, it’s cool to be here. Been wanting to learn assembly for some time now and the concept of having videos along with written info is good I think. Been watching (and reading) a few of the general Z80 tutorials and they’re great. Also tried out Chibi Akuma but my coordination and reflexes are pretty bad so I die pretty quickly, but a fun (and impressive) game nonetheless! Also, please excuse any spelling errors, I’m swedish and although I like to think of myself as somewhat decent when it comes to english, it’s not my main language.
Been messing around with arduinos and simpler coding in C# and python before but I wouldn’t call myself experienced or even particularly good when it comes to programming. Had my first experience with assembly at university in a class were we got do simple programs in C and subsequently translating them to assembly just to get a hang of how it all really worked under the hood so to speak. And let me be honest here, I found C kind of boring. Assembly on the other hand was pretty fun even though we just did a few simpler things. Before that, assembly had always seemed like it would be something near impossible to learn, a kind of programming only a chosen few of nerds would be able to master. Turns out it’s really not and actually has the potential to be pretty enjoyable.
Got an CPC 464 and a Commodore 64 at home although I lack all experience with them as a kid as a result of growing up in the 90’s. Considering nostalgia, MS DOS and Game Boy are more up my alley but I’ve taken a liking to the 8 bit machines of the 80’s in later years.
So what would I want to accomplish? Messing around with Z80 and learn how to write games for the CPC and possibly also the Game Boy would be cool. Not really sure what kind of games though, got a bunch of ideas but not any real grasp of what's really feasible so for now the plan is to just learn the basics, mess around with it a bit and see where it goes from there. Also always wanted to learn 8086 Assembly and down the line maybe even move to some of the later x86 like 80386.
Well, hope that’s not too long of an introduction.
Been messing around with arduinos and simpler coding in C# and python before but I wouldn’t call myself experienced or even particularly good when it comes to programming. Had my first experience with assembly at university in a class were we got do simple programs in C and subsequently translating them to assembly just to get a hang of how it all really worked under the hood so to speak. And let me be honest here, I found C kind of boring. Assembly on the other hand was pretty fun even though we just did a few simpler things. Before that, assembly had always seemed like it would be something near impossible to learn, a kind of programming only a chosen few of nerds would be able to master. Turns out it’s really not and actually has the potential to be pretty enjoyable.
Got an CPC 464 and a Commodore 64 at home although I lack all experience with them as a kid as a result of growing up in the 90’s. Considering nostalgia, MS DOS and Game Boy are more up my alley but I’ve taken a liking to the 8 bit machines of the 80’s in later years.
So what would I want to accomplish? Messing around with Z80 and learn how to write games for the CPC and possibly also the Game Boy would be cool. Not really sure what kind of games though, got a bunch of ideas but not any real grasp of what's really feasible so for now the plan is to just learn the basics, mess around with it a bit and see where it goes from there. Also always wanted to learn 8086 Assembly and down the line maybe even move to some of the later x86 like 80386.
Well, hope that’s not too long of an introduction.