[Nasm-users] New kind of code - Morse!

[Frank K. <fbk...@co...>]

 From the Beginner's Questions forum...

Hello, i am writing a program that takes a user input from the keyboard 
of numbers and letters and echo's it to the screen and sound as the 
equivalent morse code.
: plase note that i am working with the intel 8086.
: If anyone thinks they could help plase send me an e-mail (pleeeaaaase 
i'm desperate!)
: Cheers
: tan...@ya...


The only Morse code I remember is from an old "Pearls Before Swine" tune 
- dit dit dah dit, dah dit dah, dah dit dah dit, dah dit dah - and I've 
probably got that wrong...

If you wanna do this by e-mail, I suggest the nasm-users list - 
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nasm-users

This sounds like a homework question(?) - how far have you gotten with 
it? Can you beep the speaker? Do you know how to get user input? What 
method do you have in mind? Morse doesn't do "case" does it? So I 
suppose you'd start by lower-casing the character if it's upper-case, 
then use that ascii value, probably "biased", as an index into a table 
of pointers to strings representing the "..-."s. Then parse those 
strings to generate the beeps. Do you know how to do a delay? How fast 
do you want to be able to "send"? This might be an area where a "bug" is 
a good thing :)

I've seen an obfuscated C program that displays text as a series of 
stick-figure cartoons representing the semaphore flags for the 
characters. That might make an interesting "extra credit" project, in 
case Morse isn't obsolete enough...

Anyway, give us an idea where you're starting from and what parts you 
need help with. (dealing with your school's "cheating" policy, if this 
is homework, is *your* problem!)

Best,
Frank

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