knaack@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert John Knaack) (06/07/91)
I am looking for a good assembler so that I can write some graphic/animation programs for my 386. What is the best assembler? i.e. ease of use,speed,... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Rob
andrew@otago.ac.nz (06/08/91)
> I am looking for a good assembler so that I can write some > graphic/animation programs for my 386. > > What is the best assembler? > i.e. ease of use,speed,... > > Any help would be appreciated. There is no point in using an assembler because all you will get is a 2 to 3 times speed improvement over using a C compiler. What you want is a protected mode C compiler and a good book on graphics. If you are wanting to do ray tracing... I recommend Andrew Glassners book on ray tracing, along with Geoff Wyvills paper on the edge follower (in the procedings to CGI about 4 years ago). remember good algorythms allways triumph over fast implimentations of bad algorythms. Andrew
kai@kaiki.toppoint.de (Kai Voelcker) (06/08/91)
knaack@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert John Knaack) writes: > I am looking for a good assembler so that I can write some > graphic/animation programs for my 386. I just got the MASM 6.00 PDS by MicroSoft. It has really advanced features like C similar constructs, 486 support, good help screens, debugger and mixed language support. But You need a relatively fast machine, the pwb overhead is enormous. ________________________________________________________________________ Kai Voelcker, Kappelner Str 18, D-2300 Kiel 1, voice: +49 431 335605 kai@kaiki.toppoint.de interests: 386asm, c, pascal; OR algorithms >>> PLEASE NOTICE: I must PAY for incoming mail! ($ 0.25/KB) Thanks. <<<