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Sounds like Burning Out is Aggravating. Give it a rest and come back to it. Other people know you're up to the task. When it gets too frustrating you forget you can.

Assembly is a special kind of computer language because every instruction is so simple. So you have to use a lot of them to get anything done. This goes for all of the math operations too.

 

But, I've found that once you learn one assembly language, it's reasonably easy to pick up another - you just need to learn the differences.

 

I started learning assembly language with the 6809 on the Color Computer (after a failed start with 6502 on the Apple II). The 6809 is a nice processor as it has two 16 bit index registers, so addressing all 64K of RAM is easy. The CoCo also had memory mapped graphics and text screens. One of my first assembly programs was a bubble sort of the screen memory. Talk about your immediate feedback!

 

Anyway, spend some time with a good intro to assembly book and read the instruction sheets for different processors. Hopefully it will eventually start to make sense.