floppybird

> I meant "hardware access ([when the particular thing is] not exposed by other languages ... Ok, I agree. >Like I said, you cannot quickly do better than a modern compiler, and a compiler does it very, very quick. I'm not sure what you mean by "quickly" but this submission proves that it can be done in reasonable time. And if you look at the code (for example here:  https://github.com/icebreaker/floppybird/blob/master/src/gam...), it's obvious that you cannot produce anything nearly as compact and efficient with a compiler. So, claiming that assembly is still a language of choice nowadays was maybe exaggerated, nevertheless it's nice to remember that no matter how good they are, compilers come with a cost. If you need some evidence simply compare the submitted code with any code produced with a compiler.

It's probably just used to create the .tga images loaded in https://github.com/icebreaker/floppybird/blob/master/src/gam...

This is just beautiful: https://github.com/icebreaker/floppybird/blob/master/src/mai... Nicely structured code! I'm almost tempted to port it to amd64, just for fun. After all we really don't need any more x86/16bit example code, we need more amd64 code! :-)