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> There were four versions of the game released: White Label, Blue Label, Green Label, and Red Label, in that order. Each release was a circuit board with the c
by tenebrisalietum 5y ago
> There were four versions of the game released: White Label, Blue Label, Green Label, and Red Label, in that order. Each release was a circuit board with the compiled code split across a number of different ROM chips, also referred to as 'ICs'.
Pedantry: Assembly code is assembled, not compiled. I believe I'm losing my personal war on this, and someone here will certainly try to equate the simple mnemonic->opcode substitution and 2-pass label resolution an assembler does with the more complex and in-depth code emittance a compiler does, but it still grinds my gears.
- ddingus 5y agoMine too, but I gave up years ago. Have gone as far as a quick hand assembly on paper, then type the bytes in and run them. All that ever happened is numbers got moved around, maybe a few computed, and that's it. And doing that exercise did move some people, who relapsed later on.