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by HiPhish 34 days ago
Love the idea! Assembly has been on my forever-list to eventually learn. I have worked through the warmup exercises, but I doubt I'll have the time to continue much past that. A few points of note:

- Not a fan of the purple theme, it screams "AI-generated". It's not a deal breaker, you can keep it if you have more important concerns, but just something to point out

- It would be nice to have a "Chapter 0" for a primer on assembly syntax. Does not have to be interactive, a few toy examples I can work out on paper would be good enough

- Maybe I just haven't seen it, but it would be nice to have a reference of all the various instructions. Your lessens explain them well enough, but I would like to have a list of all of them at a glance so I can look up instructions from earlier chapters later.
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Klonoar 34 days ago
The purple theme seems fine and appropriate to me, given the GameCube’s color scheme - and some of the site feels almost Slippi-esque so there’s a bit of that angle too.
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jackpriceburns 34 days ago
- The purple theme was a conscious choice, not an AI's decision. I wanted to match the colour theme of the GameCube. You can see the current colour pallete here: https://decomp-academy.dev/brand/brand-sheet this will likely go through changes in the near future but I'd like to stick to the purple theme as a nod to the GameCube

- I've just added some new lessons before the first lesson to explain assembly syntax!

- I believe there are around 200-odd instructions, and a lot of them I'm not sure you'll ever see, but I can certainly look at adding something like this

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HiPhish 34 days ago
> I've just added some new lessons before the first lesson to explain assembly syntax!

Thanks, I just read them and they are well-done.

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HiPhish 34 days ago
> I wanted to match the colour theme of the GameCube

Ouch, now I feel like a real asshole; I was reminded off all those purple gradient slop websites. Yeah, your reasoning makes perfect sense. I completely forgot about Nintendo's weird purple phase (GBC, GBA and GC all had purple as their main brand color) because I had a silver GameCube.

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jackpriceburns 33 days ago
You're not completely wrong, AI does usually have a weird proclivity for blue/purples lol
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allan_s 34 days ago
Is "the layout scream AI generated" the new Bootstrap ? I.e what people use to quickly convey their ideas (bad or good)

Ironically, for myself at least, the least it looks AI, the more I've spent time prompting for it to not look AI.

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