The Art of Picking Intel Registers. I wrote this article for an online magazine called Scene Zine.
Scene Zine caters to the Demo Scene, which is an digital art community dedicated to pushing the limits of computers through a mix of music, art, and computer programming. A particular category of demoscene productions, 4K intros, focus on the final production's raw file size. The goal is to put as much high-quality music, graphics, and animation as possible into only 4096 bytes. Doing this requires highly-specialized size optimization techniques, since 4096 bytes is less space than two pages of typed text or a true-color Windows XP icon. 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manuals. HelpPC 2.10 - int table. 2.7 An Introduction to the Intel 80x86 CPU Family. The world's leading source for pure technical x86 processor information.