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Fans will recognize that RCT is a descendant of Transport Tycoon, which was created by Chris Sawyer, who ported Frontier Elite 2 from m68k assembly to x86 assem
by jl6 6y ago
Fans will recognize that RCT is a descendant of Transport Tycoon, which was created by Chris Sawyer, who ported Frontier Elite 2 from m68k assembly to x86 assembly (and inserted an advert, visible in some spaceports, for “Chris Sawyer’s Transport Game”).
Frontier used a “Scaled Word” datatype to represent the vast interstellar scale of the game, and according to [0] this had a range of 2^65536 ≈ 10^20k.
So there’s something relevant to compare the size of the maze solving time to!
[0] http://jongware.com/galaxy4.html http://jongware.com/galaxy4.html
- gberger 6y agoThis comment reveals the insight that 10^20k is equivalent to the number of different possible 64kB files
- dragontamer 6y ago8kB files actually. 2^65536 is 64kiloBITS. Not bytes.