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Writing a Flash player. In assembler.

Personal blog · flashasm.wordpress.com · on HN as JamesAnprogrammingsystemshardware

Writing a Flash player. In assembler. is a personal blog at flashasm.wordpress.com about programming, systems and hardware. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2014–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's dithering experiments: Floyd-Steinberg dithered pixel paintings in 16 and 64 colours, and a BBC Basic program written to test dithering algorithms. No comment praises the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Low level coding. 2D graphics. ARM assembler. Algorithms. Data structures. RISC OS. Old school coding.

The author on HN?

JamesAn · 11 karma · member since 2011

http://flashasm.wordpress.com/

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What Hacker News says?

  1. JamesAn · 2014-06-29
    Flash (SWF) player written in ARM assembler (personal project). The declining usage of the former, and the unproductivity of using the latter, are cheerfully dismissed. http://flashasm.wordpress.com/ Web-app with TAPI computer/telephony integration, for receptionists and telephone answering services (business project) Website not finished.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on?”
  2. userbinator · 2019-12-03

    Submitted The simplest Flash player imaginable (2014) as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  3. RiscyAcorn · 2016-06-12
    Last year I tried painting some Floyd-Steinberg dithered pixels... https://flashasm.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/more-incredibly-sl... (16 colours) and https://flashasm.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/81920-pixels-of-64... (64 colours)

    Comment linking /2016/05/18/81920-pixels-of-64-colour-cupcake-goodness/

    on “Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code”
  4. userbinator · 2015-07-27

    Submitted Writing a Flash player in assembler (2014) as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. JamesAcorn · 2019-06-16
    About three years ago I knocked up a quick BBC Basic program (RPCemu/RISCOS) to play around with some dithering algorithms; I ended up painting the results: https://flashasm.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/more-incredibly-sl...

    Comment linking /2015/11/04/more-incredibly-slow-rendering-algorithms-cupcakes-pixel-art/

    on “Ask HN: Do you program in Basic?”
  6. RiscyAcorn · 2015-09-01

    Submitted This rasterization algorithm is incredibly slow as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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