; Only the first 180 degrees of rotation has been drawn into ROM. In the
; case of the other 180 degrees, this subroutine renders a flipped version
; by doing the following:
I've always felt that everybody should learn some assembly. It helps in understanding C, which in turn helps in understanding most of the other languages we work with.
That being said, to actually understand what was going on would take hours of carefully inspecting the code. That's why knowing assembly is like knowing latin.
I have a 6502 decompiler which can turn assembly code into a C-type construct (a code tree). You can also assign English names to memory locations, and even define structures. Then you decompile it with all that English and it makes readable code.
Edit: I wrote it myself and I'm usually at http://www.decompiler.org/ but the website is down, though the Lisp code of the decompiler is fine.
A Zilog executive came to his former University (eg, mine), and rambled on about lossy audio compression without any knowledge of what goes on inside a music studio - where they try to make hi-fi music instead of lowering the quality because it's "hip".
i believe you're referring to a comment that says "kick watchdog."
most videogame hardware contains watchdog circuitry. every so often, the software has to notify the watchdog hardware that it's still alive. if the hardware doesn't get the notification within the time allotted, it assumes the software is hung and reboots.
