Although I've never tried it, you mean like Core Wars?



In similarly untested software, I also stumbled upon P-Robots recently, but that's apparently a Pascal subset. (In recent years I've become a fan of Wirth-ian languages, which are obviously HLLs but can still allow for cooperation with raw assembly. I have to admit that the barrier to entry for HLLs, and error-prone nature, is much lower than for x86 asm.)

Assembly is not popular for most developers, who clearly prefer HLLs and a bazillion third-party libs. Although even Windows and Linux have enough overall users that some of them still write assembly (even if I think too much attention is paid to SSE and, much worse, AVX, ugh). For instance, one of the more obvious assembly-targeted platforms is DOS (my fav), but clearly I'm one of the only ones left.



FASMG is not for noobs like me. I'm not a compiler writer (yet??). In fact, I think it's genius, but (while you may disagree) I think one almost has to be a genius to use it!

In another post recently (I think??) you wondered what would be a good target architecture. Honestly, I have no clue, I'm not savvy enough to pretend. Okay, I'll pretend anyways! Wirth's RISC? RISC-V? OpenRISC? Knuth's MMIX? Albeit fascinating, it's just too much to handle (for me). So instead I just keep plugging away at tiny DOS utils, heheh, not a waste of time at all.

No, it is more of a game that slowly teaches you an assembly-like language by introducing new instructions alongside harder and harder riddles. Also you get additional challenges to optimize the same snippet either for size or speed (measured as number of cycles). This is a great educational method, I think a game like that could be used to teach some actual assembly in a transparent and fun way.

However, as you mentioned Core Wars, it reminded me of an old thread where I talked about it. I really regret that I have never made that multi-threaded version of Challenger. Perhaps one day I will still manage to do it, years later - just like it was with fasmg engine.

Well, at least it's simple and to the point, also very lightweight. Please if you ever upgrade it, don't do change for the sake of change and bring bloat along with it like so many other forums. If you can just keep the upgrades "under the hood" only since I'm sure I'm not the only one liking simple sites like this (especially revolution since he doesn't even have JS )

I like simple sites, too -- no JS, no Flash, no Java, just "pure" HTML.

revolution is going to point out your "mistakes" -- he or she even disables JS.