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I love the cleverness of old games and the tricks used to produce compelling effects on underpowered hardware.
by jonathanhefner 10y ago
I love the cleverness of old games and the tricks used to produce compelling effects on underpowered hardware.
- UweSchmidt 10y agoAnd ultimately, that's all you'd ever need in a game, right? http://playdosgamesonline.com/lotus-the-ultimate-challenge.html http://playdosgamesonline.com/lotus-the-ultimate-challenge.h... (runs in the browser)
- jonathanhefner 10y agoI like to imagine so! :D I presume you've seen https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
- H4CK3RM4N 10y agoNintendo still has to do that to some extent in order to get competitive performance on outdated hardware. They even managed to get Smash 4 running at 1080p60fps on the Wii U.
- dormento 10y agoBack then it was just called "hardware" ;)