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Space Invaders was written by hand, as professional development tools cost way too much at that point. This interview contains a picture of a couple of the page
by ndiddy 2y ago
Space Invaders was written by hand, as professional development tools cost way too much at that point. This interview contains a picture of a couple of the pages from the Space Invaders source code notebook. https://shmuplations.com/spaceinvaders/ https://shmuplations.com/spaceinvaders/
- xtiansimon 2y ago“Space Invaders was written by hand” I’m a neophyte. What do you mean by this? You mean “100100101…” by hand or…?
- flohofwoe 2y agoBasically play "human assembler", write down the source code as assembler mnemonics on paper, then use a lookup table to convert the assembler mnemonics into hex machine code numbers, and type those numbers into the computer, while keeping track of jump target and subroutine start adresses.