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Limited resources and means, you know, promote creativity. Programming a modern standard computer nowadays is quite available to average Joe and Jane. That's wh

Limited resources and means, you know, promote creativity. Programming a modern standard computer nowadays is quite available to average Joe and Jane. That's why we have tons of crapware. But, forcing them to program a less common, sophisticated, complicated or limited architecture forces them to adapt and into being more creative. This serious game is quite a good example, and, I suppose that was also the intention behind it.

tluyben2 10y ago
I prefer actual old hardware for that (60-70-80s), that way the results really give some strange satisfaction. Personal ofcourse.
- speeder 10y ago
  Actual old hardware has a problem though: might me impossible to find. For example I live in Brazil, I learned to code trying to port MSX Basic games to a 286 GWBASIC, because I never saw a msx in person. Also, some other hardware I would love to fool around and never saw one: C64, Amiga, Sega Saturn, 3DO, PC Engine, non-Intel Mac, a real NES (I owned a clone once), programmable calculators.
  - panic 10y ago
    That's what emulation is for! I know VICE in particular is a very accurate C64 emulator.
  - tluyben2 10y ago
    MSX's are hard to find in Brazil? I thought it used to be very very popular there. I see many of them here [0] for prices I would definitely pay; here it is very hard to find them for those prices still. I would buy stuff like this [1] or [2] blindly. If you buy it I will pay you more + shipment to me :) C64s are still ok to get in other countries; MSXs are getting scarce. I managed to collect over 100 of them luckily as it is my favorite computer (nostalgia sure, but I also find it important that young people can see how it used to be). I have all the computers you name there, several of each; I can trade you for a working Gradient or Hotbit. Or just pay you :) Personally I like the ZX Spectrum & MSX the best to code on, because I was raised on Z80 assembly. After that the Amiga, but I already find that a bit too advanced; MSX is so limited (a little over 3 megahertz & usually 64-128 kilobytes! of RAM) it really is a game to get things working at some speed. But people are still doing it; for me the highlight is [3] which I find far more impressive than the latest JS-soup framework :) Then again, this [4] is impressive! [0] http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx [1] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx-gradiente-11-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx... [2] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-11-c-teclado-funcperfeito-revisado-ccaixa-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-... [3] http://www.symbos.de/ http://www.symbos.de/ [4] http://webmsx.org/ http://webmsx.org/

tluyben2 10y ago

I prefer actual old hardware for that (60-70-80s), that way the results really give some strange satisfaction. Personal ofcourse.

speeder 10y ago
Actual old hardware has a problem though: might me impossible to find. For example I live in Brazil, I learned to code trying to port MSX Basic games to a 286 GWBASIC, because I never saw a msx in person. Also, some other hardware I would love to fool around and never saw one: C64, Amiga, Sega Saturn, 3DO, PC Engine, non-Intel Mac, a real NES (I owned a clone once), programmable calculators.
- panic 10y ago
  That's what emulation is for! I know VICE in particular is a very accurate C64 emulator.
- tluyben2 10y ago
  MSX's are hard to find in Brazil? I thought it used to be very very popular there. I see many of them here [0] for prices I would definitely pay; here it is very hard to find them for those prices still. I would buy stuff like this [1] or [2] blindly. If you buy it I will pay you more + shipment to me :) C64s are still ok to get in other countries; MSXs are getting scarce. I managed to collect over 100 of them luckily as it is my favorite computer (nostalgia sure, but I also find it important that young people can see how it used to be). I have all the computers you name there, several of each; I can trade you for a working Gradient or Hotbit. Or just pay you :) Personally I like the ZX Spectrum & MSX the best to code on, because I was raised on Z80 assembly. After that the Amiga, but I already find that a bit too advanced; MSX is so limited (a little over 3 megahertz & usually 64-128 kilobytes! of RAM) it really is a game to get things working at some speed. But people are still doing it; for me the highlight is [3] which I find far more impressive than the latest JS-soup framework :) Then again, this [4] is impressive! [0] http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx [1] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx-gradiente-11-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx... [2] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-11-c-teclado-funcperfeito-revisado-ccaixa-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-... [3] http://www.symbos.de/ http://www.symbos.de/ [4] http://webmsx.org/ http://webmsx.org/