Can someone please tell me if my experience from assembly on an 8-bit (6510) will make the transition over to PC and masm somewhat easier?

I haven't been doing it for 15 years, but I like to think I at least was reasonably skilled in programming 8-bit, using the 'Macro-assembler' for sourcecoding back then.

(For cracking/trainers I used the assembly-monitor built into 'The Expert')

Yeah - I'm a Commie-64 retard..

Any experience with Asm will be a great benefit... you'll only have to learn the x86 architecture, but besides that, the methodology is the same.

I too started on c64 scene and took few time to go with windoz. The mental behaviour is always the same

Welcome Re-bounder, cool to see another old hat dropping by C64 and 6502 sound so familiar... x86 isn't that different, you'll just encounter much more freedom in writing code. More flexible addressing and indirect memory access, more registers, and, that's probably much different from the C64, different CPU modes (real mode, V86 mode), sort of comparable to what the 65816 offered. I think you'll love it. You should have a thorough look at the CPU docs from Intel and AMD, plenty to read and learn.

I stepped from 6502 to 68000 to x86, it's basically always the same. Slightly different mnemonics, more ways of crashing your computer, but the basic principle is always the same: pick that value, put it here, pick this value, put it there. Do some fancy math maybe

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