This repository contains as complete of an archive as can be reconstructed of UIUC's ECE 291 (and ECE 390) machine problems (MPs or programming assignments) from Fall 1996 through Spring 2006. While many of these files are available as of this writing from https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece390/, many of the MP index pages on the site are broken due to server errors, and the long-term maintainence of that website is uncertain as the course no longer exists at UIUC.
Due to the fact these are largely 16-bit assembly language programs, they will almost certainly require an emulated environment to run on modern machines. All MPs prior to Fall 1999 and MPs 0-3 after that point should largely be able to run in a DOS emulator. MP4/5 in Fall 1999 and later started using protected mode much more extensively, and for high resolution graphics were designed to use the ex291 Windows extensions (also available on GitHub), which require a 32-bit Windows XP environment to provide the necessary NTVDM layer.
Unfortunately, nearly all of the MP solution code has been lost, as the solutions were archived on a shared drive rather than the website. Student submissions from Spring 2001 through Summer 2005 exist, but have not been included in this archive due to copyright and privacy concerns.
- Fall 2001 MP1: mp1soln.zip in that directory
- Spring 2003 MP4: See the 2003-spring/mandlebrot directory
- Summer 2002: No .zip or .asm for MP2.
- Fall 2003: No MP0, MP1
- Fall 2004: Except for MP3 and MP4, webpages only, no .zip or .asm files
For later years, usually the author is noted in the header comments of the .asm file.
- Spring 1999: Copyright John Lockwood (Network Tag, HP-Calc) with help from Josh Scheid (GUI front-end)
- Fall 1998: Copyright John Lockwood with help from Brandon Tipp (RSA), Josh Scheid (Tron), Sankalp Acharya (ZBuffer)
- Summer 1998: Copyright Jay Moorman. (File Parser, Error Detector, Black Jack, Bomb)
- Spring 1998 Copyright John Lockwood (Huffman Encoding) with help from Mike Carter (Everitt3D) and Dan Restelli (15-Puzzle)
- Fall 1997 Copyright John Lockwood (Battletank 3D Simulator, Score Distribution, Run-Length Encoder) with help from Dan Restelli (Visual Sorting)
- Summer 1997 Copyright Matt Plavcan (Paintboard, TSR-Screensaver, Infix calculator, ASM formatter)
- Spring 1997 Copyright John Lockwood (Tag, Lunar Lander, Bakery of Hanoi, Little (Visiting Assistant) Professor, Events Calendar)
- Fall 1996 Copyright John Lockwood (Maze3D, Maze, HPCalc, Class Standings) (first on-line class)
This archive owes its existence to the assistance of Josh Potts, lecturer for Fall 2001, Summer 2001, Spring 2001, and Summer 2000, who was able to provide a full archive of the server side of the course website.