CS401 Assignment-2 Solution Spring 2025:
; Assembly Language Program to Display VUID with Blue Background
; Student VUID: BC250212345 (Replace with your actual VUID)
[org 0x0100]
Jmp start
Message: db ‘BC250212345’ ; YOUR VUID TO BE PRINTED (Replace with your
VUID)
Length: dw 11 ; length of the message
; Modify clrscr subroutine to clear the screen with Blue background
Clrscr: push es
Push ax
Push di
Mov ax, 0xb800 ; video memory segment
Mov es, ax ; point es to video base
Mov di, 0 ; point di to top left column
Mov ax, 0x1720 ; blue background (17h) with space character (20h)
Nextloc:
Mov word [es:di], ax ; clear current position with blue background
Add di, 2 ; move to next screen location
Cmp di, 4000 ; has the whole screen cleared
Jne nextloc ; if no clear next position
Pop di
Pop ax
Pop es
Ret
; subroutine to print a string
; takes x position, y position, string attribute, address of string
; and its length as parameters
Printstr:
Push bp
Mov bp, sp
Push es
Push ax
Push cx
Push si
Push di
; Calculate screen position
; Screen position = (y * 80 + x) * 2
Mov ax, [bp+10] ; load y position
Mov cx, 80 ; 80 characters per line
Mul cx ; y * 80
Add ax, [bp+12] ; add x position
Shl ax, 1 ; multiply by 2 (each char takes 2 bytes)
Mov di, ax ; di = screen offset
Mov ax, 0xb800 ; video memory segment
Mov es, ax ; point es to video memory
Mov si, [bp+6] ; load address of string
Mov cx, [bp+4] ; load length of string
Mov ah, [bp+8] ; load attribute byte
Printloop:
Mov al, [si] ; load character from string
Mov [es:di], ax ; store character and attribute
Add si, 1 ; move to next character
Add di, 2 ; move to next screen position
Loop printloop ; repeat for all characters
Pop di
Pop si
Pop cx
Pop ax
Pop es
Pop bp
Ret 10 ; clean up stack (5 parameters * 2 bytes each)
;;; END of printstr CODE ;;;
Start:
Call clrscr ; call the modified clrscr subroutine
; Position VUID at bottom right corner
; Screen is 80x25, so bottom-right would be around column 69, row 24
; to fit an 11-character VUID
Mov ax, 69 ; PUT X POSITION VALUE TO PRINT VUID ON BOTTOM
RIGHT CORNER
Push ax ; push x position
Mov ax, 24 ; PUT Y POSITION VALUE TO PRINT VUID ON BOTTOM
RIGHT CORNER
Push ax ; push y position
Mov ax, 0x1F ; LAST NON-ZERO DIGIT OF YOUR VUID AS THE
ATTRIBUTE (white on blue)
Push ax ; push attribute (bright white text on blue background)
Mov ax, message ; load address of message
Push ax ; push address of message
Push word [length] ; push message length
Call printstr ; call the printstr subroutine
Mov ax, 0x4c00 ; terminate program
Int 0x21
