Hello, Assembly!  Retrocoding the World's Smallest Windows App in x86 ASM

Hello, Assembly! Retrocoding the World's Smallest Windows App in x86 ASM

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Hello, Assembly! Retrocoding the World's Smallest Windows App in x86 ASM
Dave builds the World's Smallest Windows application live in x86 assembly using only a text editor and the command line to assemble the program using the Microsoft MASM assembler. Whether you're a professional programmer or just curious about how assembly language works, what makes it different from machine language, and why it can be faster and smaller than C you won't want to miss it! Take your Windows Programming to the next level. Or the previous level, depending on how you look at it! Link to Mug: https://daves-garage-store.creator-spring.com/listing/new-dave-s-garage-logo-mug Link to Code: https://pastebin.com/Pmvr4r1S Thanks in part to a suggestion by 'SonicMouse' that I merge linker sections, the current binary size is 1488 bytes... and yes, it runs exactly the same. 0:00 Start 1:31 Assembly Language vs Machine Language 2:24 Machine Language Monitors 3:22 Hello, Windows! 5:10 Dave's Garage Mug 5:30 Task Manager Enamel Pins 6:04 Editor Sequence Start 10:15 Includes, Libs, Constants, Data 12:00 Main Entry 13:30 ShowWindow 15:11 WinMain 17:10 WindowClass 21:37 WndProc 26:15 Command Line 28:08 Running the App 28:30 Closing Thoughts Environment: Windows 10 2H02, MacOS 11.2.2 GNU Nano Editor Microsoft MASM SDK PS: For anyone keeping score, two things are certain: (a) it can always be smaller, and I'm down to 1488 bytes now, and (b) Steve Gibson has likely forgotten as much about x86 assembly programming as I know :-). Thanks for the recent shoutout on the podcast! I realize you can make a much smaller app by simply calling MessageBox, but that's why I outlined what I deem to be the "minimum functionality". SonicMouse has come the closest so far at 1776!