Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)Mar 15
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
Show thread🐈‍⬛David SommersethMar 15

@grumpygamer Better games ... probably also related to the real hackers of 80s and 90s able to squeeze the limit of x86 CPUs in "demo competitions" where the main program was not allowed to exceed 64KiB. And they squeezed that lemon to amazing heights!

Today's generation just wines about how expensive it has become to buy more RAM.

Even though I've been doing programming professionally for for quite some time, I'm not even worthy looking at these older hacker's boots.

Show threadTorbjörn Andersson
@dazo @grumpygamer Funnily enough, I remember reading a letter to Your Computer (the British one) in Februray 1985, lamenting that these new 64 KB monster machines made for sloppy programming and had taken all the fun out of computers. 😁
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