All I hav to work on this summer is a 386 with 25mhz, 8mb ram and 300mb hard disk, don't laugh, I have a perfectly good computer back home(we have a holiday house)

I need to know how to put assembly instructions into QBASIC. I'm in a rush so Ill explain more later

thanks

Can you? I've never seen it done.

You can, It was breifly mentioned in some cryptic way that only an expert (in assembly) can understand in my book, but I didn't have a clue what it meant. Can u do it in QuickBASIC
I just downloaded that, and I'm using a proper computer to read this site by the way just in case ne ones wondering

You can definately do it, I just don't know how. I think it involves setting aside some memory, somehow putting the instructions in there and then using the CALL ABSOLUTE - memory address method

Ne one know?

Come to think of it, does n e one know of any DOS or WIN3.1 compilers and interpreters that'll fit onto a single floppy. Its fun working with ancient computers. It'd be nice to learn some ancient languages(I've nothing better to do with my time.)

I hope he wasen't refering to ram-code: thats an awful lot of work...

I've done it once using NASM and QuickBasic 4.5. You can link an assembly routine to QuickBasic. I don't remember how I called it though but I remember that I had to consider that the function had to considered like a farproc in C.

CALL ABSOLUTE would also work too but I believe it's much less flexible.

In QuickBasic 4.5, there is also CALL INTERRUPT that me be useful. I used it to load the mouse with Basic.

I've got a crappy old K&R C compiler that I could send you if you wanted.

I have loads of old stuff , just ask anytime I can send you stuff for 386/286/186 , those computers totally rule.

If its win 3.1 you could run a 32-bit emul on it.

You can run ASM programs with call absolute if you pass it the ASM program as bytecode in a string. =P I did it once by typing the program in debug and then writing down the bytecode from the memory dump...real messy.

You can use MASM or TASM to write the ASM program and compile it as an OBJ file, then link that into a LIB file for use with QB, but you'll need QB45 if you're going to do that. If you want to see the DOS commands for linking it and example ASM libraries for QB, try http://www.qb45.com/ or http://www.neozones.com/ and download some of the graphics libs like Dash, DirectQB or Future.Library. They come with full source, and you should be able to figure it out from those libs. =)