I have seen a lot of people saying they want to learn ASM and need help, and I felt like there was a need in the community for something like this. So, I began writing them a few days ago. This is going to be a huge project, and I don't know if I'll finish writing them all. I probably need to write a total of 10 or 20 more.

My goal is to teach everything you need to be able to do really serious rom hacks. Starting with the very basics of 6502 ASM. I have never done much writing like this, ever in my life. So, I really don't know what I'm getting myself into here.

Anyway, I have the intro, and the first 2 written. I really want feedback on these. Let me know if there's any problems, or if they were hard to follow. Or, even if you liked them and want me to hurry and finish the rest. Let me know that too. I get discouraged and may quit easily, feedback keeps me going.

Here's the links
http://bbitmaster.com/neshackingintro.txt
http://bbitmaster.com/neshackingtutorial1.txt
http://bbitmaster.com/neshackingtutorial2.txt

Oh, and I don't want anyone else hosting them yet. At least not until I get more written, as I'm still doing revisions and corrections and stuff.

I'll post more as I write them.

All in all, pretty good so far. I think it's at a good level. one common pitful many fall into is not dumbing it down enough. But I think you've done a good job breaking things down. Keep that pace up. Assume the audience knowns nothing.

I happen to agree with throwing in the binary arithmetic and carry status bit early on. It's so heavily used. Carry and Zero bits are a necessity. I would add in a bit about the zero flag and BNE and BEQ.

I think there might be too much emphasis on C. A good number of people learned assembly first. In fact, it's Assembly that will give you a greater understanding of C. Trying to throw C into the mix may confuse as many people as it would help.

As far as presentation goes, have you considered HTML over plain text? Just a thought. I could go either way in my preferences.

Very nice so far. I think you should mention the status register a little sooner than you did. I tried to approach reading these as if I were a complete newb, and when you said "we need a carry bit", I was all "whaaaat?" Other than that, I like it.

I haven't read these tutorials yet (and I might not until I get a new computer or my computer's power slot gets fixed) but there is thing that I hate from some tutorials (and math books!): The terms and how they think the reader seems to at least know a bit about what they're talking about.

This is why it's important to have a text editor that tells you what column you're at. :p

[Any editor worth its salt has a columns indicator of some sort.]

I'll be giving these a try! As I'm pretty much a n00b, I might have some questions for you at some point though. Hopefully they will serve to help you improve the tutorials rather then bug you. Thank you so much for making these! I hope to see more soon!

~N~