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Re:The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 fami... by dakics on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:43PM (#17991232)
I remember having great time writing this little 256-byte game:

https://github.com/dakics/asm-tie-fighter

Back then, it often made a huge usability difference if you optimized in asm critical inner loops or other time-consuming external methods, which would be called from Clipper, Turbo Pascal/C, Modula-2 or alike. TSR-loaded "Norton Guides" were indispensable. Good times. :)

Re:The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 fami... by ohadpr on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:15PM (#17992381)
I think my first assembly book was a Norton one :-)