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Chris M wrote: Amazon reviews disagree; who is right? Two of my favorite 8088 assembler books were one that I have misplaced and can't remember the name of, but it began by dumping you directly into DEBUG and you wrote your first assembler programs in it (even saving your work to disk and loading it back to make edits). Writing functional programs directly in debug, no source code but the binary opcodes themselves, made a few bulbs turn on in my head. The second was Abrash's Zen of Assembler. He tends to beat a point into the ground, redundantly and repeatedly, but overall it is fascinating reading and most definitely has helped my speed optimization skills. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/