Assembly language or ASM or just assembly is a programming language for writing microprocessor specific machine language. The difference between assembly code and machine language is that assembly code allows the programmer to use easy to remember mnemonics for machine language opcodes.

Like machine language, assembly language is specific to a certain microprocessor model and cannot easily be transferred between them unless both microprocessor models are of the same series (i.e. The 6502 and 6510).

Assembly language is much faster than high level programming languages like BASIC and even C. For this reason, arcade-style games for classic computers had to be written in ASM.

Related Pages

• 6502
• Binary
• Computer Science
• CPU
• FreeBASIC - allows inline ASM
• Machine Language
• Memory Address
• Program Counter
• Programming Language
• RedCode

Links

• 6502 Wiki - a wiki about mastering 6502 assembly language.