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Previously on "Code Puzzle"

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  • AtW
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    I've moved on to coding .NET assemblies.

    HTH

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  • fullyautomatix
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    Originally posted by chef View Post
    1.5yrs ago!!! jeez, I remember reading this thread, it seems like it was just a few months ago..

    Still haven't bought the Dummies Guide to Learning Assembly or whatever a good beginners book would be. AND I still haven't bought the Python for Beginners book either...

    This time next year rodders..

    Well, there are some who say if you havent coded assembly language you are not a real programmer.

    Me, i dont care, I only do web development and leave assembly language to AtW and Churchy.

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  • chef
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    1.5yrs ago!!! jeez, I remember reading this thread, it seems like it was just a few months ago..

    Still haven't bought the Dummies Guide to Learning Assembly or whatever a good beginners book would be. AND I still haven't bought the Python for Beginners book either...

    This time next year rodders..

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    I thought you said it was code, not anarchic jibberish

    Do you need to tell us the target architecture for optimisations to be sensible? Out of interest is this real code from some legacy system?
    Relax. The challenge ended over a year and a half ago

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Below is a piece of code. If you feel like optimising it then please do. It is purely an exercise and for the hard of thinking (AtW), not a competition. Your resulting code must be assembled via debug and if you use a hex listing (in the case of .386 code for example) then please show your source code and explain any optimisations
    Out of interest is this real code from some legacy system?
    Last edited by d000hg; 7 December 2011, 13:52. Reason: edited for Nick

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Looks like Churchy made an arse of himself with some poor code from the 1980's.
    WHS

    Yes I know the penalty for resurrecting old great threads is a perm ban but I dear admins!!!

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  • rsingh
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    This was the thread that made me realise what an utter cock atw was.

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  • OrangeHopper
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Assembler? Bleedin' eck. Apart from me and Zeity who on CUK is ancient enough to be able to do that?
    Me.

    I used to prefer Macro 11, far more sensible than 8086 etc.

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  • xoggoth
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    Assembler? Bleedin' eck. Apart from me and Zeity who on CUK is ancient enough to be able to do that?

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  • fullyautomatix
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    Excellent thread this !!

    Wish there were more threads like this.

    Never coded in assembly language so I have no clue what those numbers mean except it proved AtW and Nick are pretty good at what they do.

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  • themistry
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    well, this thread was great.

    all that rage over some assembly, classic

    TM

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Yeah, I charged 'em to keep you off the servers last night! I can't believe how easy it was!
    They were working fine whilst I was coding, they failed AFTER I finished and thought I finally can get a quick game

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post




    ta, it's better be a big one - I've spent whole of yesterday evening doing it instead of playing my favourite game, by the time I finished with code Valve's servers were down

    Yeah, I charged 'em to keep you off the servers last night! I can't believe how easy it was!

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Well done everyone who contributed - even AtW when he stopped whinging like a fairy.


    As was originally mentioned this wasn't a competition but AtW, Nick I owe you both a beer.
    ta, it's better be a big one - I've spent whole of yesterday evening doing it instead of playing my favourite game, by the time I finished with code Valve's servers were down

    Last edited by AtW; 5 March 2010, 10:04.

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  • Churchill
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    Well done everyone who contributed - even AtW when he stopped whinging like a fairy.

    As was originally mentioned this wasn't a competition but AtW, Nick I owe you both a beer.

    MarillionFan - I wouldn't expect you to understand.

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