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They mostly provide hardware abstractions; I suspect that the intros, if coded in 100% bare metal (Amiga style), wouldn't be that much larger.
by taway_1212 9y ago
They mostly provide hardware abstractions; I suspect that the intros, if coded in 100% bare metal (Amiga style), wouldn't be that much larger.
- royjacobs 9y agoIndeed. PC 64k intros in the 90s were just as popular. Initially running on MS-DOS but later moving to Windows. Unless you have some memory-mapped interface to the underlying hardware (like the C64/Amiga) you'll always have device drivers, I don't see how that's "less impressive" at all. It's not like a device driver has an undocumented "MakeAwesome()" call that modern 64k intros are abusing.
- Ace17 9y agoExcept for the use of OS-provided General MIDI soundbank (Windows has gm.dls), which seems to be common practice now.