> Assembly for console, well I don''t know much of that. But
> wasn''t assembly really a DOS thing (5 percent of DOOM was
> written in Assembly, the rest in C)? They used it
> to "accelerate" their games.

What I meant by consoles is N64, Sega, etc. Doom is a good example, for if it was written entirely in assembler, we''d never see it anywhere except the PC. With C code, you just recompile (and tweak) for your target platform. With assembler, you have to rewrite. So if you envision someday having your game run on a N64 or whatever, write as little as possible in assembler.

> And since game programming is mostly data manipulation,
> there has to be some way to get the game to run fast
> enough.

Amen, brother. Using assembler to increase speed *should NOT be done first*. Focus on the design, and improve the speed from the design level. Then see if you can improve on the C code. Once you''re sure you''ve got it as fast as it will go in C, then drop to assembler if needed. Well written C will outperform poorly written assembler.

Brian