Tag: ASSEMBLER

One of the best things about great Time Wasters is that the developers keep giving us more. Take Assembler, for example. Jay first wrote about it last year, and now we've got even more physics puzzle fun and frustration to enjoy with Assembler 3. The concept hasn't changed: move objects around the play area, stack them up, wedge them, balance them. Do whatever it takes to get the target shape ...

Assembler is a fun physics-based game where you get to toss around boxes, beams and other shapes, trying to get a box into a target somewhere in each level. It's difficult to write a review of Assembler without becoming distracted for an hour, playing Assembler. The puzzles become challenging in later levels, but a lot of the fun is in throwing boxes around, hitting them with beams, and making ...

This definitely falls under the category of, "Why? Because we can!" JSASM is an x86 assembler written completely in JavaScript. It's utterly useless, but therein lies the beauty. It's implemented in what is arguably the highest level language -- meaning far removed from the guts and gore of actual machine code -- in common use Fewer budding young programmers work with assembly language these ...