The game is made in NASM x86_64 assembly without any libraries (not even the C standard lib). It just uses the Linux system call interface.

https://github.com/robjinman/gemsnrocks_asm

Boulder Dash inspired soil muncher in x86_64 assembly for Linux - robjinman/gemsnrocks_asm

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The demo of Grail on Rand Tablet (full version) The movie was provided by Computer History Museum archive.

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Why do many code examples, especially tutorials, use the names "Foo" and "Bar" so often? It is almost a standard.

For example:

void foo(char* bar) {
printf("%s", bar);
}

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