Creative assembler

CREATIVE ASSEMBLER How To Write Arcade Games The assembler available on the BBC Microcomputer and Acorn Electron is a very powerful programming tool. It is a most effective way to communicate with your computer - an equivalent program in BASIC will take between ten and one hundred times as long to execute. Speed is one reason why assembler is used in fast-moving, colourful arcade games, but it also rids us of other constraints imposed by the structured nature of all high-level languages. The author, Jonathan Griffiths, the creator of such top-selling games as SNAPPER and JCB DIGGER,…