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x86 assembler implemented in Javascript
Fewer budding young programmers work with assembly language these days, but way back in a decade we call the 1980s you just weren't a home PC hacker unless you could cobble together some simple ASM code to make your machine do stupid tricks. Go much further back than the 80s and, you'd need to have some assembly skills to get anything remotely interesting accomplished.
JSASM is open source (very!) so, if you ever wanted a deeper look inside an assembler, here's your chance.
[via Ajaxian]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
