Iczelion's Win32 Assembly HomePage

This page is devoted to programming Win32 programs using assembly language. It contains tutorials, forum, links and other resources to help you start Win32 assembly programming. If you have any comment , suggestion , question or anything to contribute, please email me at Iczelion@galaxycorp.com

_masta_'s Tutorials [French Translation TRUE URL] The original win32asm tutorials. Written for TASM. Sanctioned by _masta_!!! He will not write more tutorials so please don't ask.
• _masta_'s Win32Asm Tut 0

Introduction to Windows 32bit Assembler - requires you to have a basic asm knowledge.
The goal is coding the "Hello World!" example.
• _masta_'s Win32Asm Tut 1

Going further into the material - this time _masta_ shows us how to code a "seek-and-destroy" patcher,i.e. a patcher that searches for a certain byte-pattern in a file and replaces it with a different pattern. Using such a nice patcher it's possible to write cracks for several versions of a program if the protection scheme itself isn't changed by the author.
• _masta_'s Win32Asm Tut 2 (new,corrected version)

This one is interesting for all game-freaks out there as it'll show you how to code trainers for games. _masta_  shows you how to write a trainer for Starcraft ! This is the new version,because there was an error in the source code.
Iczelion's Tutorials [Italian translation][download the whole pack]
• Tutorial 1: The Basics
• Tutorial 2: MessageBox
• Tutorial 3: A Simple Window
• Tutorial 4: Painting with Text
• Tutorial 5: More about Text
• Tutorial 6: Keyboard Input
• Tutorial 7: Mouse Input
• Tutorial 8: Menu
• Tutorial 9: Child Window Controls
• Tutorial 10: Dialog Box as Main Window
• Tutorial 11: More about Dialog Box
• Tutorial 12: Memory Management and File I/O
• Tutorial 13: Memory Mapped File
• Tutorial 14: Process
• Tutorial 15: Multithreading Programming
• Tutorial 16: Event Object
• Tutorial 17: Dynamic Link Libraries
• Tutorial 18: Common Controls
• Tutorial 19: Tree View Control
• Tutorial 20: Window Subclassing
• Tutorial 21: Pipe
• Tutorial 22: Window Superclassing
• Tutorial 23: Tray Icon
• Tutorial 24: Windows Hooks
Iczelion's VxD Programming Tutorials [download the whole pack]
• Virtual Device Driver Basics
• Virtual Machine Manager
• Virtual Device Driver Skeleton
• VxD Programming: Primer
• VxD Example: MessageBox
• DeviceIoControl Interface
• Win32 Constant List supplied by RokFOX This is a list of most constants you will encounter in your programming chores. They are grouped by alphabet. The value is in hexadecimal. You can download the list in one zip file.
• How to Write NT Services in Assembly Language by Cynical Pinnacle. This tutorial teaches you step by step on how to write NT services in asm. Concise and to the point, this is a must read for NT lovers. Come with source code of a simple beep service which you can use to learn about NT services.
• Memory Mapped Files: Sharing Data Between Instances This advanced win32asm lesson by Aesculapius shows you how to use memory mapped files as a way to share data among processes. He explains the memory map used by Win32 first so you get a clear picture of how memory mapped file works. You can download this excellent article with the accompanying example here.
• Structured Exception Handling in Win32asm by Jeremy Gordon. This article explains the concept of exception handling which will make your application more robust. The info on structured exception handling is hard to come by, especially in asm. A must read. Download the sample code here.
• Structured Exception Handling in ASM. Two articles with code samples by EliCZ and the_owl.
• Win32asm winsock programming section Contains resources about winsock programming including the source code of my win32asm HTTP download program.
• Guide to Winsock Programming in Assembly Language
• How to use DirectDraw in Win32ASM by X-Calibre. Show you how to use C++ and COM objects from assembly language. Include a cool plasma example in DirectDraw with source code.
• How to obtain memory status by 'Razor'X. Demonstrate how to get information about current free physical memory, virtual memory and more. Written with TASM.
• Examples Win32 asm examples
• Small Is Beautiful Written by Steve Gibson. He's a die-hard assembly programmer who programs everything in assembly. MASM-specific.Visit his page.
• Win32asm A Win32 asm toolkit designed specifically for MASM. Good tutorial and sample source code inside.
• Skeleton A Win32 skeleton. MASM-specific.
• Win95 Example A Win95 assembly example. TASM-specific.
• Net Walker's Debugger v0.3 A Win32 asm debugger with source code! Demonstrate how to use dialog box as main window and the use of debug API. TASM-specific.
• DirectDraw demo by Mike Bibby. Source code for both TASM and MASM. You need at least ddraw.lib from DirectX SDK or Visual C++ to assemble it or better, download MASM32 package below.
• Simple PE Cryptor by hayras . Demonstrate how to encrypt code and data section of any PE file. Full source code included.
• VGCrypt PE Encrypter 0.75 beta by Virogen. Another great PE encrypter with several features such as finding a location to insert itself between object virtual size and the next file alignment boundary. Visit his homepage.
• HTTP Downloader v1.5 by Iczelion. Show how to write a simple winsock program that uses HTTP to download files. This version can resume broken download!.
• HTTP Zip Dowloader v1.2 by Iczelion. Open zip archives remotely and let you pick the files you want to download! Come with source code.
• CrueChat by +Cruehead. A win32asm chat program which demonstrates how to create server-sided and client-sided sockets. Come with source code.
• Virogen's PE Realigner 0.04 beta by Virogen. Realign your PE files to make them smaller! Especially useful for programs written with TASM.
• How to call NT ring-0 from DOS by EliCZ. Asm source codes to demonstrate the techniques. Work under Windows NT only. Check out his homepage.
• PESentry by Kill3xx Another pe encrypter with full source code. The interesting part is the resource enumerator which you can use in your own projects.
• Hidden  by CybOrgAsm. A simple example on how to use a semi-documented kernel API call, RegisterServiceProcess, to hide/unhide your own process from the task list when the user presses Ctrl+Alt+Del. Note: this trick works on win9x only.
• Toolbar example by Teraphy. A tiny example that shows you how to create a toolbar with tooltips.
• File Encrypter by device. This program takes in a variable-length key and uses it to encrypt the selected file. The complete project is available. Written in TASM.
• Win32 Assembly Programming Forum A forum for sharing ideas and asking questions about Win32 assembly programming.
• Spanish Win32 Assembly Forum. For discussing about Win32asm in Spanish.
• Win32 Assembly Links
• Resurrection of Assembler A great page containing essays about Win32 assembly programming. Participants include _masta_ and _HaK_.
• Windows 95 Assembly Language Programming Tutorials written by Henry Takeuchi.
• Visual Assembler A project to develop a visual IDE for Win32 assembly programming. Now it is managed by Knotty Dread. If you want to help out, email him. News! NASM code snippets needed. Any good ideas about Visual Assembler are welcome. Don't hesitate to mail Knotty Dread about them
• Steve Gibson's Homepage Homepage of the author of Small Is Beautiful example.
• Whiz Kid Technomagic Homepage of G.Adam Stanislav. Another hardcore assembly programmer. Several Win32 asm samples are downloadable from this page.
• _HaK_'s HomePage Original series of Win32 assembly tutorials. TASM-oriented.
• _Secret's Win32 Assembly Tutorials Three tutorials for TASM users.
• Lord Lucifer's Assembly HomePage Links to assembly-related resources
• Win32 Programming by Tomcat. Contain many win32asm-related resources, including the zipped version of my tutorials and win32asm forum.
• BrainSpin Contains many win32asm links.
• Cornsoup A new aspiring programming site. This site contains programming essays of every description. Very informative.
• Test Department Contains several original win32asm tutorials and a patcher. Written for use with MASM32 package.
• Turbo Assembler IDE  A win32asm IDE for TASM. Freeware.
• Netwide Assembler Project The homepage of NASM, the freeware assembler. It will be used to power Visual Assembler in the first stage.
• Ron's Cornucopia for Assembly Language and Graphics Programming. A good website dedicated to graphics programming using assembly language. At the present, most of the stuff are for DOS but the author is working on graphics programming for Windows.
• [..The Assembly Page..] by Jimmy. Several interesting projects in pure asm including telnet server/client. Also many handy file format references and some tutorials/info on win32 environment.
• Lightning Software contains a win32 asm FAQ, asm source code of a compression utility and some cool utils coded in win32asm.
• Stone's WebPage The treasure house of knowledge. You will find many many interesting source codes in win32asm there.
• EliCZ's Hello Coder! EliCZ is a very good asm coder. You can find his programs with source codes here, including NT kernel-mode and user-mode driver skeletons.
• Other resources
• MASM32 version 4 The quick start MASM package for win32 asm programmers by hutch. Contains MASM 6.14 & link, asm template, a nice win32 code editor and the latest version of lib2inc utility. The new front-end code generator will create your program's front end in less than a minute. Also the latest DumpPE from Clive Turvey! Highly recommended. With this package , you got all you need to program in win32asm. This package now contains all the include files and import libraries. Visit MASM32 Official HomePage.
• Lib2inc v1.2a-u. A very nice utility that can extract info about functions in Microsoft import libraries to create include files with function prototypes. It can process all import libraries in the current folder. You can specify the format of the include file ,TASM or MASM. There are two versions of it now, one for ANSI and the other for Unicode.
• Windows Include File version 1.12 (April, 30th, 1999) The latest version. Generally newer than the one in MASM32 package.
• MASM32 Help File Contains info on MASM's high level constructs such as invoke, .while-.endw, and MASM macro. Also included is an article by lucifer on how to set up MASM for use with SoftICE
• NMake 1.5. The free make utility from Microsoft.
• WinEdit An award-winning programmer's editor with several nice features such as syntex highlighting, macro, output capture, MDI support and much more.
• Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.11d patch
• Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.12 patch
• Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.13 patch
• Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.14 patch fix a nasty bug in creating structure array
• Win32 API reference Detailed description of every Win32 API
• Microsoft Win32 Knowledge Base
• Programmer's File Editor A Win32 code editor that lets you develop Win32 assembly programs without having to use makefiles.
• Assembly Journal An online journal that contains all sorts of assembly language programming ranging from straight asm to weird asm such as Linux assembly language programming.
• #win32asm An IRC channel in EFNET devoted to discussion about Win32 assembly programming. Talk with other Win32 asm developers there.

Last Update: July, 13th, 1999