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  • Any other assembly coders around?

    From Elder0010@RDBBS to All on Fri Sep 23 06:38:41 2016
    In my free time, i love to code things on old platforms such as Commodore 64 and Vectrex. I am about to explore new stuff, like Atari VCS or Intellivision. Someone else around who codes on such kind of platforms?
    /q

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  • From Nightfox to Elder0010 on Thu Sep 29 14:56:41 2016
    In my free time, i love to code things on old platforms such as Commodore 64 and Vectrex. I am about to explore new stuff, like Atari VCS or Intellivision. Someone else around who codes on such kind of platforms?

    I don't, although I took a couple of Intel x86 assembly language classes in college. I thought it was fun. I haven't done any assembly coding since those classes though (I've used other languages in my jobs since then).

    Nightfox
  • From Elder0010@VELENO to Nightfox on Thu Oct 13 21:18:06 2016
    Re: Any other assembly coders
    By: Nightfox to Elder0010 on Thu Sep 29 2016 14:56:00

    I don't, although I took a couple of Intel x86 assembly language classes in college. I thought it was fun. I haven't done any assembly coding since those classes though (I've used other languages in my jobs since then).

    x86 is cool, but I think that if you start with 6502 it's better because you can handle it easier. Less opcodes, simpler processes and so on. And also you can work with some very cool machines of the past which required ASM necessarily to obtain serious results, and the nostalgia factor will motivate you more! I have coded and released some demos and crack intros for the Commodore64, and for some of them I have provided the source code as well. You can check it out at bitbucket.org/elder0010
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  • From Nightfox to Elder0010 on Fri Oct 28 09:21:49 2016
    I don't, although I took a couple of Intel x86 assembly language
    classes in college. I thought it was fun. I haven't done any
    assembly coding since those classes though (I've used other
    languages in my jobs since then).

    x86 is cool, but I think that if you start with 6502 it's better because you can handle it easier. Less opcodes, simpler processes and so on. And also you can work with some very cool machines of the past which required ASM necessarily to obtain serious results, and the nostalgia factor will motivate you more! I have coded and released some demos and crack intros for the Commodore64, and for some of them I have provided the source code as well. You can check it out at bitbucket.org/elder0010

    That sounds interesting.

    I thought x86 assembly was alright. I think my assembly classes in college taught x86 because Intel x86 is very common in the marketplace for business & home computers. They would adjust their curriculum so that students would have the most marketable job skills according to what the job market was looking for.

    Nightfox