HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
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Re: HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
#2love this and it's timely as I think with AI more of my code will just be native assembly for example: https://github.com/taf2/tic-tac-toe my m series native assembly based tic tac toe windowed game... very portable too you just simply execute codex --yolo port my app to x y z host...
Re: HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
#3I should try FASM to see if it produces a smaller size exe. COM files are small, but 16-bit DOS was the thing back in the day - 100H yeah and basically a memory dump.
Re: HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
#4I should try FASM to see if it produces a smaller size exe. COM files are small, but 16-bit DOS was the thing back in the day - 100H yeah and basically a memory dump.
> 100H yeah and basically a memory dump
... the days! :)
Re: HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
#5For more of the same (though I wish source was available) which actually does something useful, see the various small utilities at
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Re: HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
#7For more of the same (though I wish source was available) which actually does something useful, see the various small utilities at https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm
Shields Up!
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Do you have any evidence of these (unsubstantiated) claims against him?
Re: HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
#9love this and it's timely as I think with AI more of my code will just be native assembly for example: https://github.com/taf2/tic-tac-toe my m series native assembly based tic tac toe windowed game... very portable too you just simply execute codex --yolo port my app to x y z host...
I haven't played with yolo yet. I'll have to use my airgapped, old Lenovo ThinkPad for this! Whenever I see yolo, I can't stop thinking of Joseph Redmon's YOLO and his astounding resume format!
Re: HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
#10Interesting to bypass CRT and work directly against the Windows API. That said, these rely on USER.32.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL to do the majority of the heavy lifting.
It's a bit like 'smallest hello world in assembly' but the code is just setting up the calling convention and then passing the zero-terminated character string into `write`. Cool, but that could be done a bit more straightforwardly in C, too. A lot of assembly (including in the linked repository) is book-keeping for the platform's calling convention.