Asm32 Rebirth History ...
The Assembly Rebirth began at a time I was completely out of any programming activity. When I went back to programming, in 1998, the Assembly Rebirth had already begun, and was in progress for a couple of years, with the work of several pioneers. As I did not take care to record the Dates and Names in timely fashion, and as more and more older Pages are becoming unavailable on the Net, as many older works, sometimes, do not have any Date and/or were even anonymously released, the following list is incomplete and poorly organized, I have been able to draw as of June of 2003... If you have some historically significant date and name references, please, let me know.
Though it is sometimes difficult to say in what group some given personality stands, the Rebirth may be described in several waves:
- The very first 'Pioneers' who wrote the very first Demos and Tutorials, most often at the level of the 'Hello Win' example. Many of them were TASM users and do not seem to be yet active as of July 2003. Most of these older Pages have long since vanished... (I.E. Masta, Lord Lucifer, Titi, ... etc.).
- The 'Clearing up guys', who established most of the basic principles of Win32 Assembly (Wayne J. RadBurn, Sven B. Schreiber, Jeremy Gordon, G.Adam Stanislav, ...).
- The 'Gardeners', who wrote most of the Tutorials and Demos we are using nowadays (Iczelion, Ron Thomas, Test Department, ...)
Some of these named Programmers cross all these 'categories', as they were there in the first days, and are, more or less, still active today, in 2003.
* Masta: 3 small Tutorials. TASM. (Date???)
* Lord Lucifer's Assembly HomePage (Date???)
* Titi (???...)
* Wayne J. RadBurn: Author of Skeleton v1.2 released the 1995/09/30 (started in June/1995 -MASM-).
* Sven B. Schreiber's 1996/03/19 release of WALK32. - MASM -
* Jeremy Gordon: Structured Exception Handling in Win32asm. 1996-8 Except32 - A386 -
* Steve Gibson: Author of Small Is Beautiful - October 1996 - MASM (http://grc.com/smgassembly.htm). (essentially a simple rephrasing of the other Pioneers works, particularly the ones of Wayne J. RadBurn).
* Whiz Kid Technomagic Homepage of G.Adam Stanislav: crc32.zip -1997- DLLs Demo. and several other Demos. One of them, Rand.exe, was the very first Win32 Application I learned Byte after Byte, atfer several weeks of study, before I began writing the very first Version of SpAsm, in 1998.
* Virogen: 1998, VGCrypt PE Encryptor v0.75 Beta // Virogen's PE Realinger v0.4
* Net Walker: Debugger v0.3. Debug Model, May, 14th - 1998
* Mike Bibby: 26 October 1998, Twin. Asmflip (Dx)
* Cynical Pinnacle: Wrote a 'beepverv' Demo for NT Services. (Date?)
* Win32 Programming by Tomcat. (?)
* Iczelion. From Wayne words: 'a CompuServe PC Programming forum message dated 1998/10/28 which first pointed out Iczelion's web site'. (Hutch says: 1997/98)
* Ron Thomas: Ron's Cornucopia for Assembly Language and Graphics Programming. 'Late 98 - early 99'
* Test Department released his first Demo in February 1999. He says he learned most of the stuff from Icze, _HaK_ and _masta_ and Lord Lucifer, and later 'found Titi's site with a lot of source codes'.
Most of the Dates and comments I provide here are the ones that each of these Programmers may have provided to me, when I asked them. I am not sure of the very first release of Iczelion's Tutorials. He seems less active now, and did not answer my mail asking him questions about this history. This seems to be in 1998.
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