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Re:Sid Meier and the meaning of ‘Civilization’ by erikbye on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:47AM (#28627467)
Not to dismiss his achievement, but, why do people always think programming in assembly is ultra hard? This was just how we wrote games back in the day. I still know people using Assembly for a wide range of development, it's not particularly harder than any other programming. A bit tedious, yes, but with FASM and Fresh it's a lot better.
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Re:Sid Meier and the meaning of ‘Civilization’ by BeetleB on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:16PM (#28631245)
> This was just how we wrote games back in the day.

Most games written in assembly were not at the scale of Transport Tycoon, though.

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Re:Sid Meier and the meaning of ‘Civilization’ by rhn_mk1 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:44AM (#28627845)
Perhaps it's a matter of framing: it's hard compared to more high level languages, which don't need so much self-discipline.
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