I, too, fondly remember reading Compute! and Compute's Gazette from cover to cover each month when I was a kid, along with long sessions of typing in programs from the magazine into my C=64. I remember talking to some adults about Assembly programming, and they were dumping on my beloved 6510, seemingly surprised anyone could get anything done with only three registers (A, X, & Y). They were 8086 guys, of course. All…
56 opcodes, plus a few undocumented ones; I think there was a TXY and a TYX on the 6510, for example, which I probably found in one of those Compute magazines. Assembler was a lot of fun on the C64. Let's not forget all that self-modifying assembler. That's how EA, and others, use to copy protect their games. :-)
Is anyone still doing any assembler for any kind of work these days?
