Emu8086 Overview Everything for learning assembly language in one pack! Emu8086 combines an advanced source editor, assembler, disassembler, software emulator (Virtual PC) with debugger, and step by step tutorials. This program is extremely helpful for those who just begin to study assembly language. It compiles the source code and executes it on emulator step by step. Visual interface is very easy to work with. You can watch registers, flags and memory while your program executes. Arithmetic & Logical Unit (ALU) shows the internal work of the central processor unit (CPU). Emulator runs programs on a Virtual PC, this completely blocks your program from accessing real hardware, such as hard-drives and memory, since your assembly code runs on a virtual machine, this makes debugging much easier. 8086 machine code is fully compatible with all next generations of Intel's micro-processors, including Pentium II and Pentium 4, I'm sure Pentium 5 will support 8086 as well. This makes 8086 code very portable, since it runs both on ancient and on the modern computer systems. Another advantage of 8086 instruction set is that it is much smaller, and thus easier to learn. Emu8086 has a much easier syntax than any of the major assemblers, but will still generate a program that can be executed on any computer that runs 8086 machine code; a great combination for beginners! Note: If you don't use Emu8086 to compile the code, you won't be able to step through your actual source code while running it. Where to start? Start Emu8086 by selecting its icon from the start menu, or by running Emu8086.exe. Select "Samples" from "File" menu. Click [Compile and Emulate] button (or press F5 hot key). Click [Single Step] button (or press F8 hot key), and watch how the code is being executed. Try opening other samples, all samples are heavily commented, so it's a great learning tool. This is the right time to see the tutorials.