> I write all my code in assembly on paper then manually translate into opcodes
LOL! There was actually a time (way back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth) when that was actually how it was done. ;)
(I remember as a kid having to look-up hexadecimal 6502 CPU opcodes on a chart then type in a huge list of hex into the computer to write "machine code" if you wanted anything faster and more powerful than BASIC.)
That's exactly what I did when I was writing code in a paper notebook around 1995. Mainly because I didn't have a computer at home, and I wanted to program more than anything else in the world.