Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days?

Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for the... by DCoder on Monday November 02, 2009 @02:44AM (#916395)

Debugging and reverse engineering games.

When publishers/developers don't give a bleep, the fans take up the task of fixing the bugs themselves. I happen to run one such project in my spare time (for C&C: Red Alert 2), and it's amazing how much stuff is broken. It's not as "serious" as other projects mentioned here, but still a reason to know ASM. (And a good way to see bad programming practices in action :) )

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Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for the... by smiler on Monday November 02, 2009 @04:57AM (#916511)

People are still playing C&C: RA2?!

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Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for the... by listic on Monday November 02, 2009 @05:41AM (#916542)

Come on, people are playing all kinds of games!

I'm sure people still play Master of Magic, a strategic game from 1994. I've been playing it on and off since it came out, and I began to think - is it something wrong with me that I like this old game so much? I mean, surely there must be newer games that are better. I showed it to my teenage brother in the mid 2000's and he loved it too. I had my non-computer-gaming friends blown away by the original Heroes of Might and Magic (1995).

I think the world needs better means for preservation of old computer games.

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Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for the... by percept on Monday November 02, 2009 @08:36AM (#916725)

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

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