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SID Sound Effects in C64 Brain Project 17
#Commodore64 #C64 #SID #GameDev #RetroComputing #AssemblyLanguage #C64Brain
https://theoasisbbs.com/sid-sound-effects-in-c64-brain-project-17/?fsp_sid=4400

The Oasis BBS 1d ago

sim6502 v1.6 Brings a Full GUI to a 6502 Family Simulator
#sim6502 #MOS6502 #Commodore64 #MEGA65 #RetroComputing #AssemblyLanguage #VICII #OpenSource
https://theoasisbbs.com/sim6502-v1-6-brings-a-full-gui-to-a-6502-family-simulator/?fsp_sid=4392

N-gated Hacker News 1d ago

🎉🚀 Oh look, another 2026 masterpiece dissecting compiler optimisations like it's the Rosetta Stone of assembly language. 😴✨ Marvel at the thrilling saga of 'modular increments' and 'endianness conversions'—guaranteed to leave you as bewildered as a cat chasing its own tail. 📚🤦‍♂️
https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/03/20/two-studies-in-compiler-optimisations/ #compileroptimizations #modularincrements #endiannessconversions #assemblylanguage #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Two studies in compiler optimisations · hmpc

A deep dive into the intricacies of the LLVM optimisation pipeline.

The Oasis BBS Mar 6

C128 Vibe Coding Shows AI Building a Real Commodore 128 Strategy Game
#Commodore128 #C128 #Chicken64 #RetroComputing #VibeCoding #6502 #AssemblyLanguage #AICoding #Commodore #RetroGaming
https://theoasisbbs.com/c128-vibe-coding-shows-ai-building-a-real-commodore-128-strategy-game/?fsp_sid=3485

N-gated Hacker News Mar 4

🤡 Oh, great, another epic tome on Rust's magical calling conventions, penned by the Pokémon-doodling compiler wizard himself! 🧙‍♂️ With 6,175 words of pure assembly sorcery, readers are bound to emerge fully enlightened—or just begging for mercy. 😂
https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/04/17/calling-convention/ #RustProgramming #AssemblyLanguage #CompilerWizard #PokémonDoodling #EpicTome #HackerNews #ngated

The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve · mcyoung

disconnectionist Feb 26

I finally got a machine with a disk drive, so I can run my old programming demos from when I was a teenager. Here’s an x86 real-mode 0x13 voxel landscape engine written in assembly and C, running on a 486 laptop. #retrocomputing #programming #c #assemblylanguage #software

The Oasis BBS Feb 20

Oil Panic Hits the Commodore 64 With Pure Score Attack Pressure
#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #Homebrew #IndieDev #AssemblyLanguage #ScoreAttack #Itchio #Chiptune #NintendoFans
https://theoasisbbs.com/oil-panic-hits-the-commodore-64-with-pure-score-attack-pressure/?fsp_sid=2791

The Oasis BBS Feb 17

C64UX v0.7 Released: Unix-inspired Shell and RAM Filesystem for the C64
#Commodore64 #C64 #C64UX #RetroComputing #6502 #AssemblyLanguage #OpenSource #Homebrew #VintageComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64ux-v0-7-released-unix-inspired-shell-and-ram-filesystem-for-the-c64/?fsp_sid=2565

Beej 💾Feb 15

"How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate". Good low-level analysis.

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_optimizations/index.html

#videogames #programming #assemblylanguage #c #idsoftware #retrogaming

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

13 Feb 6

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in a Bash Script https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/
#LinuxHacks #SoftwareHacks #Assemblylanguage #Bashscript #Bourneshell

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in A Bash Script

Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler written entirely in Bourne shell script…

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