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It's a shame that the old computing culture is dead. VX scene, demoscene, crack scene, ... Everything that used to be interesting for the curious is dead. Now
by zxcdw 14y ago
It's a shame that the old computing culture is dead. VX scene, demoscene, crack scene, ... Everything that used to be interesting for the curious is dead.
Now we have... web development and "front end engineering" and "value creation" which rule the game. It really pisses me off that I care about none of these. I care for technical superiority with scarce resources, but today no such domains exist really. Really depressing.
- coldpie 14y agoMmmh, sorta. Mobile development often lets you work bare-metal with scarce resources, especially in the world of game consoles. One of my favorite experiences in high school was developing homebrew games for the PSP and experimenting with homebrew on the GBA. Right now I'm reverse-engineering an NES game from 1992 just for the hell of it (god it's fun). Hardware hacking is still around, there's just so many other options that it can get lost in the noise.
- gavinlynch 14y agoYah, even though that scene is growing smaller by the year, the 6502/2A03 ASM geeks are still crunching away... looking for extra space inside NES Rom's to cram some new, cool feature their favorite games would benefit from. Did a little in the mid-00's, was a great time and taught me how a microprocessor works. So fret not! A good old-school time can still be had in this modern age of new-fangled-front-end-engineers!! (of which I am one) :)
- voltagex_ 14y agoI don't think the demoscene is dead. http://scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fparties%2F2012/ http://scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fparties%2F2012/