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Show HN: Boulder Dash style game made in x86_64 assembly

by rjinman on 10/1/24, 8:44 AM with 0 comments

It doesn’t use any libraries, not even the C standard lib! It just uses the Linux system call interface.

Drawing to the screen is done by writing directly to /dev/fb0.

I created this just to learn assembly - something of a lost art these days. I’m mainly a C++ developer. This has been a lot of fun and very enlightening.

Here is a video: https://youtu.be/IoJQ80pWyGI