68k Assembly

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1982)

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mnulli

rragan

karmakaze

r1chardj0n3s

dabeaz

BitWise

tartley

boutell

fuzzyman

yacitus

krisse2

mpirnat

cdeblois

davidpaccoud

sanchom

smalltobi

CaptainSay

mnulli - 19 years

rragan - 8 years

karmakaze - 5 years

r1chardj0n3s - 8 years

dabeaz - 1 years

BitWise - 1 years

tartley - 3 years

boutell - 1 years

fuzzyman - 4 years

yacitus - 3 years

krisse2 - 2 years

mpirnat - 1 years

cdeblois - 9 years

davidpaccoud - 3 years

sanchom - 1 years

smalltobi - 2 years

CaptainSay - 14 years

mnulli

1982–2000

Not really sure about the start. Mostly used on the 68010, which was the version of the 68K that could actually do VM. Also wrote a assembly->assembly "de-pessimizer" for the output of the GreenHills compiler.

rragan

1984–1991

Mac 68000 Assembly language

karmakaze

1985–1989

Used on Atari ST and Eicon Technologies EiconJet printer emulation board.

dabeaz

1986

Wrote some assembly for a special 68000 coprocessor card for an Apple 2.

r1chardj0n3s

1986–1993

Getting to the metal on the old Amiga. Programming the blitter from the copper. Yeah. Those were the days.

BitWise

1986

Used 68K assembler on a defence project I can't talk about.

tartley

1988–1990

boutell

1990

"Tom's program is very slow, but I can't figure out why, so I am giving him full credit for the assignment." I was storing two integers in each register via bit shifts to avoid the trouble of screwing around with memory.

fuzzyman

1992–1995

yacitus

1992–1994

I bought a book on 68K assembly on a day trip to (I think) Great Falls, Montana while visiting a friend in Lethbridge, Alberta, and read it for pleasure. I think that was around 1983. Its orthogonality reminded me of PDP-11 assembly. But I didn't get a chance to use it until programming for System 7 on Macs for Motion Works, starting in 1992, where a reading knowledge of 68K assembly came in handy.

krisse2

1993–1994

cdeblois

1995–2003

Developing memory patches for the Siemens EWSD Digital switching system involved using this.

mpirnat

1995

davidpaccoud

1996–1998

Amiga demo coding for fun.

sanchom

2001

Just a course on assembler languages.

smalltobi

2006–2007

CaptainSay

2011–

The language that helped me really learn what's going on. I firmly believe every programmer should work with low-level languages at least once in their lives.