Yes, what people managed in pure assembly language was really impressive. Unsurprisingly though they also spent a lot of time developing a lot of time-saving t

Yes, what people managed in pure assembly language was really impressive. Unsurprisingly though they also spent a lot of time developing a lot of time-saving tools, like macro assemblers and higher level languages like C. Probably the games on the Amiga and Atari ST was the last heyday of these kinds of development.