• etler@programming.dev
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      One of my classes had us design our own 8 bit processor and assembly language. It was a lot of fun designing it. It was like a little puzzle to figure out how to get features into those limitations

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      I had a job where for whatever reason their codebase that was started in 2010 was mostly assembly

      whenever I was upset with them, I would write the most esoteric assembly with zero comments explaining how whatever I was making worked

      this is neither an endorsement nor a rebuke of assembly, just my (technically) professional experience with it

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      6502 especially. It’s super goofy compared to anything that made the jump past 8-bit, but that’s because it was designed for handwritten bytecode.

      I would not recommend the NES, though. The video chip is fiddly and awful, and to this day, nobody’s sure what color anything should be.