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It is an interesting piece of software, but what is the purpose? For someone that wants to emulate a Pentium computer there are many better ways, for having fun
by AdrianB1 10y ago
It is an interesting piece of software, but what is the purpose? For someone that wants to emulate a Pentium computer there are many better ways, for having fun there are many better ways, so what is left for this particular one?
- khedoros 10y ago> for having fun there are many better ways There's no accounting for taste. Building something like this sounds a lot more fun to me than most programming projects that I hear other people talk about as "fun". What would you have chosen to do instead?
- frutiger 10y agoWhy must everything have a purpose?
- nocman 10y agoOr what if the purpose is "because it was fun to make", or "it was a great learning experience".
- khedoros 10y agoI've got a lot of side projects like this one. The programming I do at work has a solid purpose. It's relaxing to work on something that isn't strictly necessary, as long as it satisfies my curiosity. I like reading through disassemblies of DOS games and figuring out how things work. It's fun recognizing C programming patterns in the assembly. There's something a little charming about looking up what writing to some VGA control register is supposed to do...and I haven't found anyone else who actually thought any of that sounded like fun. Someday, I'll put together a series of blog posts about it, and maybe I'll have some code that I actually want to show off, but right now I'm just having fun.
- vonmoltke 10y agoI would probably have more side projects if I could get over feeling like every one had to have a "purpose".
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