It was cool back in the day, when the alternative was BASIC, also during the demoscene early days.
Nowadays most of that can be done with intrinsics, which were already present in some 1960's system programming languages, predating UNIX for a decade.
Modern Assembly is too complex, it is probably easier to target retrogaming, or virtual consoles, if the purpose is having fun.
Nowadays most of that can be done with intrinsics, which were already present in some 1960's system programming languages, predating UNIX for a decade.
Modern Assembly is too complex, it is probably easier to target retrogaming, or virtual consoles, if the purpose is having fun.