Overview
As we agreed at the start of class on Tuesday, we will depart from our linear
march through our text taking notes, and jump ahead to do the equivalent of
hello world
in assembly language.
Thursday, October 19th
Classwork / Homework
Use both classwork and homework time to complete the assignment given Tuesday. Each of you should come to class on Monday prepared to show your running program on your school laptop.
Evaluation
To earn an A for this week's evaluation, you much have ACC.ASM
on your school laptop, and be able to assembly it into a running program
in your Altair 8800 simulator that will display ACC
when run.
Tuesday, October 17th
Classwork / Homework
The following pairs will work together to write, assemble and run a program
named ACC.ASM that will print the letters ACC
to the screen
when run:
- Edward and Julissa
- Joseph and Cyrus
- Nate and Sheel
Your task is to do each of the following before the start of class on Monday, October 23rd:
- Extend the program in Listing 7-1 of our book (on page 74) so
it prints
ACC
instead of just$
. Put our source listing in a file namedACC.ASM. - Move
ACC.ASMfrom your host computer to the third virtual disk of your Altair 8800 simulator (DRIVE C:). - Assemble it using the assembler (ASM.COM) on DISK A: of your simulator environment.
- Run the executable program and display
ACC
on your screen.