2048 ASSEMBLY FOR 8086 ARCHITECTURE

About the project

This program was developed to learn instructions of 8086 processor, it was a task for the Computer engineer course at university of PUC Campinas brazil.

How i can run it?

It will be necessary to run inside a DOS environment, of course it's not easy to find a original computer with DOS on now's days, however we can do that by using virtual machine like DOSBOX

Steps to setup enviroment

1. First download the DOSBOX and follow the official documentation to install it;

2. It will be necessary to mount a volume from the host machine into the DOSBOX, for that, use the command bellow

   MOUNT C PATH_ROOT_PROJECT
   

   Change the PATH_ROOT_PROJECT with the path for your root project within your host computer

3. Now you can enter into the directory by typing

   C: C
   

   By performing the <dir> command you should be able to see the files from that mouted point

Steps to compile the project

1. To compile we'll use two auxiliary programs, which are TASM.EXE and TLINK.EXE. both of them is insie root folder of this project. to convert the .ASM into a .OBJ run the following command

   TASM.EXE 2048.ASM
   

   By typing the command <dir> again you should be able to see the 2048.OBJ as an output from the command above.

2. To compile and generates an .EXE it will be required to use TLINK.EXE program as shown bellow

   TLINK.EXE 2048.obj
   

3. Well done! at this point 2048 is already compiled! to run it use the following command

   2048.EXE
   

Other informations

The performance can be increased by typing the keys Ctrl+f12 or decrease using Ctrl+f11, it is recommended to decrease velocity at least once to check what is happening on the screen during the screen print process