TASM Counter

Program will output the amount of digits, small letters, big letters and other characters for every line and for the whole input (file).

See comments in count.asm.

The whole program is linked as an external procedure because there were some bonus points promised for it, no real reason other than that.

Help

Some notes are in Slovak (such as the requirements for this exercise and selected bonus sub-exercises), but they're not crucial to understanding of what is happening. The only annoying part may be that the actual user-output is in Slovak incl. help. So to summarize in English:

Help for SPAASM Z1:
Ondrej Spanik 2022 (c) iairu.com
Program will output the amount of digits, small letters, big letters and other characters for 
every line and for the whole input (file).

Possible arguments:
[file] - Program input at the given point
-h - Help output at the given point (in Slovak)
-s - Switch to summary-only output at the given point (no per-line amounts)
-c - Clear the screen at the given point

Any combination of arguments is possible.
Every argument is always processed in order of entry.
The amounts will overflow every 16-bits (~64kB) because WORD type is used.
Works for files >64kB.

How to run this on Windows using VSCode

My recommendation is to use MASM/TASM VSCode extension, set it to dosbox-x mode with the whole "workspace" mounted (not just single-file mode).

Then (considering the external procedure requires combined linking) use "Open emulator" in right-click menu of any .asm file here and within it use compile.bat.

Mac/Linux

It is possible to use the given VSCode extension on Mac/Linux, but you have to refer to its GitHub page for information about how to download & link-up dosbox for given platforms (included only for Windows).

Info

This was done as a part of SPAASM subject at the FIIT faculty of STU Bratislava by me in 2022-03. It was also my first Assembly project.

It's 2022, why are we using 16-bit TASM built for DOS sometime in 1990s?

No idea, it was "really fun" to find any help when i got stuck. But i managed. Not sure why we don't use NASM or something newer.

https://iairu.com (c) 2022

Have fun.