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> The point of all this? The Breaking Madden games are really an outlier that you'd have to specifically code for. Rather than coding special exemptions or rul
by doktrin 13y ago
> The point of all this? The Breaking Madden games are really an outlier that you'd have to specifically code for.
Rather than coding special exemptions or rules, it seems that using 8 bit storage would have to be a deliberate choice on any modern platform.
- m_myers 13y agoSure, on any modern platform. But you don't change 25-year-old code unless there's a pressing reason.
- BlackDeath3 13y agoFair enough. I suppose I could see twenty-five year old code relying on data sizes in such a way that a seemingly trivial change could cause issues. The real question is, what the hell does a Madden developer do for the rest of the time that dealing with data type changes is not worth it?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoHow about things like 'physics' and 'ai'.