Install mercurial source control management system (sorry git lovers), and prerequisites. Set up by making some directories and exporting a variable or four. Clone the source repository. Let the building begin.

There’s only two handfuls of assembly instructions you really need to know. The others aren’t used as often. Many of the instructions are made up of three characters with an operand, a comma, then another operand. Some others have four chars instead. To call a BIOS function that does some pre determined stuff such as printing something, you use INT. Most functions have multiple methods you can call so you’ll need to figure out which routine you want and put that number into the ah register first:

They were throwing out the entire library of old books at work since we’re moving to a new building. I couldn’t believe they weren’t even going to donate them to the library or recycle them. Off to the dumpster they were about to go…