• yucandu@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Epic Pinball was another game that I recall was written in assembly. When your old 286 struggled to run games at a decent framerate, Epic Pinball would run in a smooth 75fps or whatever you set your CRT monitor to.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Have you seen the insane complexity of modern CPUs? Ain’t no one hand coding that like a 6502 in 1985.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 days ago

      Even if one did, say using x86, it would still just be interpreted by the CPU into the CPU’s native opcodes, as the legacy instruction sets are interpreted/translated.