Higher or Lower LMC Challenge

For this challenge you will write a program of Guess the number (Higher or Lower?) using LMC assembly language.

Your program will be used by two users (player A and player B) as follows:

• Ask player A to input a number between 1 and 100 (without player B looking at what player A is inputting)
• Ask player B to guess player A’s number. For each guess, the program will give feedback to the player as to whether their guess is too high or to low.
• Let player B carry on guessing till they guess the right number.

Below is the flowchart for this game designed to be implemented with a high level programming language such as Visual Basic. Note that if this flowchart was to be implemented in Python it would have to be changed slightly to replace the repeat until loop with a while loop as there is no repeat until loop in Python.

Little Man Computer

Your challenge is to redesign this algorithm for a low level assembly language (See LMC instruction set below). You will then be able to code this game using one of the following online LMC Simulators:

• Online LMC Simulator
• Alternative LMC Simulator

Note that these LMC similators only manipulate numbers so you will have to use the following values for your output messages:

• “Higher!” will output number 1
• “Lower!” will output number 0
• “You win!” will output number 9

LMC Instruction Set

Note that in the following table “xx” refers to a memory address (aka mailbox) in the RAM. The online LMC simulator has 100 different mailboxes in the RAM ranging from 00 to 99.

Mnemonic	Name	Description	Op Code
INP	INPUT	Retrieve user input and stores it in the accumulator.	901
OUT	OUTPUT	Output the value stored in the accumulator.	902
LDA	LOAD	Load the Accumulator with the contents of the memory address given.	5xx
STA	STORE	Store the value in the Accumulator in the memory address given.	3xx
ADD	ADD	Add the contents of the memory address to the Accumulator	1xx
SUB	SUBTRACT	Subtract the contents of the memory address from the Accumulator	2xx
BRP	BRANCH IF POSITIVE	Branch/Jump to the address given if the Accumulator is zero or positive.	8xx
BRZ	BRANCH IF ZERO	Branch/Jump to the address given if the Accumulator is zero.	7xx
BRA	BRANCH ALWAYS	Branch/Jump to the address given.	6xx
HLT	HALT	Stop the code	000
DAT	DATA LOCATION	Used to associate a label to a free memory address. An optional value can also be used to be stored at the memory address.