Assembly

The magic of assembly is how the simple act of pushing and mutation hex-values result in graphics. In Nick Morgan’s fantasy 65021, pushing #$01 to $0200 will color the first pixel in a specific color. The magic happens in the hardware, but using this alienating, obscure, or occult language seems like having more or less direct access to the magic contained in the chip.

See also

TitleTags
ARM AssemblyProgramming-Languages, Acorn-Archimedes, Glossary
Assembly and LLMsArtificial-Intelligence
CALMProgramming-Languages, Computing-History, Smaky, Glossary
MOS 6502 AssemblyProgramming-Languages, Commodore-64, Microprocessor, Glossary
Visuality of Early Video Game Graphics ProgrammingVideo-Game-Visuality, Visuality, Media-Theory, Budding, Microprocessor, Video-Game-Graphics, Player-Phenomenology, Blinded-by-the-Light

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Footnotes

  1. Easy 6502 by skilldrick