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alberth
on Feb 28, 2025
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EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, al...
Interesting to see how much Assembly was used in Red Alert (19.5% of code base), whereas all the rest is < 3%)
xgkickt
on Feb 28, 2025
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I haven't looked through the code yet, but could be real/protected mode interop. IME render code back then was typically in asm also.
rightbyte
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Why would that be? Old code from C&C which in turn inherited from Dune?
ukd1
on Feb 28, 2025
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Could be, though also maybe optimization?
rightbyte
on Feb 28, 2025
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Dunno just looking at some file names they seem generic. I would guess carry over since Dune.
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