The Diary

Preface

CHAPTER I
Try touching the ground
Assembly syntax: INTEL vs. AT&T
Little Endian
Making up my mind
Set up the test rig
The two's complement

CHAPTER II
Story of a deep space exploration
Alien-Planet Landing-Module
Alien planet probe: the design phase

• show string procedure
• stack to string procedure
  • out a nibble procedure
  • nibble to ASCII

Alien planet probe: the manufacturing and test phase

• nibble_to_ASCII
• out_a_nibble
• show_string
• stack_to_string
• AP-PROBE

CHAPTER III
From Apollo to Space Shuttle
Learn read before you write
Read the first block of HDD
It is time to look into FAT
Design and build the Space Shuttle
Test and deploy the Space Shuttle

CHAPTER IV
Change of gear
Hand made linking
Relocatable code

CHAPTER V
Learning how to write on the hard disk with INT 13H
show_string_II
write_ASCII
Test INT 13H for the second time
Read write LBA (a wrapper for INT 13H)
How to rename the volume label of partition
Clean Code

CHAPTER VI
The Space Shuttle Reloaded
Initial setup
The template for SHUTTLE2
The builder for SHUTTLE2
First launch of SHUTTLE2
A different perspective