Tuesday, 22 July 2014

How to work with MASM in WINDOWS 7 & 8.

Requirements -

1. MASM software (32 bit ) click here to download, 

2.DOS Box software(32 bit) click here to download

Procedure -

1. If you dont have MASM & DOSbox  software then do download them from above given links;

2. After downloading above software to your PC
   do extract both of them to 2 separate proper individual folder on C drive;

3. Now click on the DOSBox icon on your desktop & a screen will appear as shown below;


4.Now type the following code of instruction in your DOSBox -

 mount c c:\  [hit enter] 

and then the screen will appear as shown below;


6. Ok Now type  - 

C:\   [and hit enter ]

and then DOSBox screen will appear as shown below 

7. Now here  type cd [ hit spacebar] & then type name of the folder which contains MASM software / application file- [hit enter] & the screen will appear as shown below;
here, cd stands for CHANGE DIRECTORY  
for example - 
cd 8086
cd masm


8. Now type "edit"[hit spacebar] type the name of the file which you want to work in MASM along with .asm extention
for example -  
edit masm1.asm [& hit enter]

9.Finally you are ready do your MASM program stuff as the screen will appear as shown below.