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by turbo_wombat
289 days ago
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The original version of Ultima I was written in a mixture of BASIC and assembly. BASIC is pretty slow, but most BASIC implementations let you call into optimized assembly routines. Though, past a certain point of complexity, performance aside, assembly might be more readable than BASIC because BASIC relied on line numbers for jumping around, whereas assemblers offered named labels. |
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True that. Who could forget "One moment for house-cleaning!" as it ran a FRE(0) every time you saved.
(... uh, everybody?)