Would experimenting with MASM32 break my computer?

Question

Is it safe to play a little bit with it on my computer? I have this hunch that I'm gonna make a terrible mistake while writing some experimental code. Is my fear baseless?

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Edit

Thanks for the quick responses and clarifying my concern. I guess I don't have to worry too much about it. If I'd want to do some dangerous experiments, I'll prepare an virtual machine environment. Thanks again!

Answer 1

You'd have to try quite hard to do permanent damage with an assembly language program; I'd guess it's easier to do damage in high-level languages than low-level ones.

If you make a mistake, the worst that will happen is that Windows kills your process or kicks you into the debugger.

Answer 2

Only if you are very good and you know what you're doing ( sorry for oxymoron :) ).

Also, it was much easier to do in real mode than in protected.

Answer 3

I don't know enough about MASM32 to say whether or not your concerns are justified, but if you're really concerned, and have the means to do so, then why not run MASM32 on an instance of Windows running in a virtual machine?

Answer 4

"Is my fear baseless? "

Not entirely, but probably the worst you would do is wipe your hard disk. And you'd have to a bit of work to do that

Answer 5

About the worst i've ever had happen was my computer froze and I had to restart it. I think you're probably fine.