Asmtut

I have written six lessons in a tutorial on x86-64 assembly programming. The theme of the tutorial is the making of a snake game with the least amount of abstractions over the OS.

The tutorial was originally posted on Google+, but has been reposted here after its demise.

• Asmtut 1: true
  • Step 1: Assemble, link and execute
  • Step 2: exit(0)
• Asmtut 2: Hello world!
  • Step 3: Calling write
  • Step 4: Data section
  • Step 5: Disassembly
• Asmtut 3: Redundancies
  • Step 6: String length
  • Step 7: Repetition
  • Step 8: Macros
• Asmtut 4: Input
  • Step 9: Writing into an array
  • Step 10: Read and interpret
• Asmtut 5: More snappy interaction
  • Step 11: Cleanup
  • Step 12: ioctl: Structs and bitmasks
• Asmtut 6: Live interaction
  • Step 13: ANSI escape codes
  • Step 14: Velocity
  • Step 15: Nonblocking input
  • Step 16: Real time