A good mind-breaker useful for solving a real tasks. For example, tasks that programmers solved when sending man to the Moon. Along the way, you’ll acquire Assembly programming skills and refresh your math knowledge.
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Maybe it sounds unusual but let us introduce a binary computer programmable in Assembly language.
In the software, we tried to marry the atmosphere of the iconic first computers with a practical training tool. At the same time, you can prove yourself working in limited-resource conditions in which real programmers had been working in their days.
The software represents a virtual computer with a von Neumann architecture. At your disposal are the following resources: Architecture The 8-bit processor has an 8-bit accumulator, as well as 8-bit registers mapped to memory: instruction counter, input register, output register, stack pointer, FLAGS register. Memory The Astra-256 has 256 bytes of memory (exactly as it was in the first versions of the Altair 8800). Instruction Set The Assembly instruction set is quite extended and contains 102 instructions. But a novice user does not need to know all of them. It is enough to know only part of them to start writing the first assembly code. To learn more about instructions, click on the Help View button in the app or read detailed documentation on the official website. You might want to print it for more immersion in the programming process. Instructions grouped into 11 subdivisions:
We provide the user with an extended set of instructions similar to those found in all modern microcontrollers, microprocessors. The ASTRA-256 allows for getting basic programming skills in low-level hardware. On these foundations, you can master the coding of any modern microcontroller. After all, its basic operating principles remain the same.
The ASTRA-256 is a tool with everything at hand. It allows puzzling over the solution of tasks with limited resources. Write in Assembly language a square root extraction program, a trigonometric function calculator, or an interactive game. And maybe you will be the next real programmer who sends a man to the Moon.
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Maybe it sounds unusual but let us introduce a binary computer programmable in Assembly language.
In the software, we tried to marry the atmosphere of the iconic first computers with a practical training tool. At the same time, you can prove yourself working in limited-resource conditions in which real programmers had been working in their days.
The software represents a virtual computer with a von Neumann architecture. At your disposal are the following resources: Architecture The 8-bit processor has an 8-bit accumulator, as well as 8-bit registers mapped to memory: instruction counter, input register, output register, stack pointer, FLAGS register. Memory The Astra-256 has 256 bytes of memory (exactly as it was in the first versions of the Altair 8800). Instruction Set The Assembly instruction set is quite extended and contains 102 instructions. But a novice user does not need to know all of them. It is enough to know only part of them to start writing the first assembly code. To learn more about instructions, click on the Help View button in the app or read detailed documentation on the official website. You might want to print it for more immersion in the programming process. Instructions grouped into 11 subdivisions:
We provide the user with an extended set of instructions similar to those found in all modern microcontrollers, microprocessors. The ASTRA-256 allows for getting basic programming skills in low-level hardware. On these foundations, you can master the coding of any modern microcontroller. After all, its basic operating principles remain the same.
The ASTRA-256 is a tool with everything at hand. It allows puzzling over the solution of tasks with limited resources. Write in Assembly language a square root extraction program, a trigonometric function calculator, or an interactive game. And maybe you will be the next real programmer who sends a man to the Moon.
A good mind-breaker useful for solving a real tasks. For example, tasks that programmers solved when sending man to the Moon. Along the way, you’ll acquire Assembly programming skills and refresh your math knowledge.
We are not affiliated with IsThereAnyDeal.
Steam data © 2025 Valve Corporation. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Independent of Valve. Pricing and availability subject to change.
