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Revision as of 13:18, 15 August 2016

The FPU offers a lot of operations not available to classic x86 CPU, like SIN, COS, TAN, EXP and so on. Usage and communication with the FPU is a bit iuncommon and takes a bit to get used to. It's recommended to read the creation of the snippet we want to modify first, this is how it looks like originally :

cwd             	; "clear" DX for perfect alignment
mov 	al,0x13
X: 		int 0x10	; set video mode AND draw pixel
mov 	ax,cx		; get column in AH
add		ax,di		; offset by framecounter	          <-- REPLACE THIS WITH FPU CODE
xor 	al,ah		; the famous XOR pattern
and 	al,32+8		; a more interesting variation of it
mov 	ah,0x0C		; set subfunction "set pixel" for int 0x10
loop 	X			; loop 65536 times
inc 	di			; increment framecounter
in 		al,0x60		; check keyboard ...
dec 	al			; ... for ESC
jnz 	X			; rinse and repeat
ret					; quit program

and this is how it looks if we replace the instruction with FPU code :

cwd             	; "clear" DX for perfect alignment
mov 	al,0x13
X: 		int 0x10	; set video mode AND draw pixel
mov 	ax,cx		; get column in AH

fninit				; init FPU first
mov		[si],ax		; write first addend to a memory location
fild	word [si]	; F(pu) I(nteger) L(oad)D a WORD from memory location to the FPU stack
mov		[si],di		; write second addend to a memory location
fiadd	word [si]	; Directly add the word in the memory location to the top FPU stack
fist	word [si]	; F(pu) I(nteger) ST(ore) the result into a memory location
mov		ax,[si]		; Get the word from the memory location into AX

xor 	al,ah		; the famous XOR pattern
and 	al,32+8		; a more interesting variation of it
mov 	ah,0x0C		; set subfunction "set pixel" for int 0x10
loop 	X			; loop 65536 times
inc 	di			; increment framecounter
in 		al,0x60		; check keyboard ...
dec 	al			; ... for ESC
jnz 	X			; rinse and repeat
ret					; quit program

(explanation follows, dinner first ^^)