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[–] TunaCowboy 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Generally speaking the OS is your universe and you interact via syscalls. Linking libc is also an option.

In some instances you may need to roll your own, but it's likely to be small and specialized.

[–] TheBananaKing 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

:stares in genX:

That's not assembly, that's ikea.

Back in my day...

[–] AngryCommieKender 5 points 3 months ago

Remember before .dlls were a thing and you had to write your own config files for every game that you installed on DOS?