> So when Andy Reece says that it was programmed entirely in assembler... does he > really mean EVERYTHING? Like the music and graphics too? How do you even begin to do > such a thing?
He is a programmer so his everything could just relate to what he did. But to play music you need a program, which if he wrote it then it was written in assembler.
The sound samples, notes and 3d models are unlikely to have been created using an assembler, however it is possible to do it. Rob Hubbard programmed all his tunes using a machine code monitor & graphics in the old days were drawn onto graph paper and then converted to hex and entered into an assembler/monitor/burnt straight into a rom.