I love these 8-bit projects. They force you to focus on only the most essential elements of your program, there isn’t room for anything else. On one hand this

I love these 8-bit projects. They force you to focus on only the most essential elements of your program, there isn’t room for anything else. On one hand this made everything simpler, on the other hand you needed to have deep knowledge so you could create clever workarounds for things like not having floating point hardware. Sometimes it feels like a superpower having grown up with that generation of computers, but I also feel it sometimes holds me back - always that little voice in your head saying “it’s wasteful to copy that whole string when you just need to change that one character in the middle” :-)