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I couldn't stand Basic even back then, and moved to assembler shortly after. I have various magazines to thank for that, as they started explaining (hex dump in
by bnastic 12y ago
I couldn't stand Basic even back then, and moved to assembler shortly after. I have various magazines to thank for that, as they started explaining (hex dump included!) how demos and intros by big European groups were made (scrolls, raster effects, tricking hardware to do the "impossible", etc.). It blew my 13yo mind, so much that for a long time (even after I moved to Atari ST and then PC) I considered assembler the Only True Way.
- vidarh 12y agoAt one point, I "ported" stuff from C to assembler on my Amiga by compiling it, then disassembling and optimising the assembler when I found example code in C etc. for something I wanted to do. The C compilers at the time were so bad at optimising that it was not unusual to delete about half the lines, which of course led to keeping up the attitude that C was not acceptable. Then I got interested in writing compilers, and got a bit more respect for the challenges involved...