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Oh, for the days when you could run a murderous android with a 6502! https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64 https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64

• derbOac 3y ago
  This is an interesting example of a broader phenomenon to me. I'm not sure if there is a name for it or not but it goes something like this: Sure, there's 6502 assembly on the screen but the fact that it's some kind of valid hardware code invokes a kind of gritty realism to me. It might break immersion but it does it in a way that then brings me back in even more so at some level. Imagine for example that it was Visual Basic or PHP. That would be hard for me to deal with in a way that 6502 assembly isn't? Especially given the time period of the film. I think there's a kind of "atmospheric accuracy" that some details can invoke even if they're not strictly realistic. That is, I might know something is sort of unrealistic at some level (it's unrealistic that they'd be using 6502 assembly that far in the future, with machinery like the Terminator unit) but also feel like it's realistically grounded at another (there's some actual low-level hardware code involved). A plumber might know that a certain type of pipe wouldn't be used in a specific setting in the film, but also know and appreciate that the pipe in the film is a sort of obscure pipe that is closely related to what would be used, and itself might be used in a very similar scenario.
• Turing_Machine 3y ago
  Robocop, by comparison, was running on MS-DOS. :-)