alt Hacker NewsWow, the source 6502 assembly with comments is incredible: https://github.com/vermiceli/nes-contra-us/blob/main/src/ban...
The whole thing (all banks) is more than 10,000 lines of assembly code. When I wrote assembly code for a university computer science course, it was hard to manage even 200 lines. I cannot imagine writing and managing 10,000 lines!
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zahlman • today at 8:11 AM
As much as I wouldn't want to write that much assembly, you make it less daunting the same way that you would with any other programming language. There are simple idioms for loops that you can macro-ize; similarly for function setup and teardown; more importantly, the concept of a function still exists at that level.
Bear in mind: the dissambly was done pre-LLMs. The early commits are from 2023. Although, ChatGPT 4 existed then, it was not capable of doing these things.
Impressive work, indeed. vermiceli the GOAT.