- Only? Apart from "Plug in dusty old cartridges, CRT TVs, datasettes, or disk drives - it all works" and "128MB DDR2 RAM (16 MB system, 16 MB REU, 16 MB GeoRAM (soon), remaining MB RAM Disk)" where I assume the RAM disk fits into the "Wi-Fi game transfer" as a destination but that is just a guess from my side.
Or usb.
- It does feel like you have to know a ton of m68k asm already in order to know when its good enough, so you might aswell have written it as inline asm to begin with.
- C was always just a "high level" assembler. Eventually you have the techniques in your mental toolbox to nudge your compiler in the right direction. Unless you read the K&R deeply you might not even know there is "volatile" and "register" keyword. Then with poking your compiler do you get to find out what it does when you write code with those modifiers.
As a tutorial on how to go about optimizing code youits good, as a practical matter there wasn't much need to tweak this piece of code for a production system. IMHO. Opinions will vary. I always worked in shops where the schedule was always shrinking and deadlines loomed ever closer - optimizing only where it was absolutely needed.
- Well, A might be called a GP, but X and Y are quite limited. As you said, moving to m68k was a dream compared to this.
- Read that and some other articles on the same site and it presents a lot of opinions as facts which is sad, since this detracts from some interspersed valid or interesting points that are there.
- I find it useful to discount heavily for hyperbole when reading stuff written by Amiga people, including the otherwise essential Bagnall books. I think the shock of being able to do multimedia-ish stuff in the mid 1980’s somehow causes reality to distort when considering the stunning mediocrity (or worse) of much of the AmigaOS software stack.
(I can write some choice words on the Mac’s software stack too. None of the 80’s 32-bit platforms were without significant and avoidable problems.)
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- This might make you happy?
- Well, look at the critique when Gnome3 came out to replace Gnome2. What pissed people off was exactly that it: 1. Set a certain amount of choices on how the gui should work and 2. Removed a lot of settings, especially those that would have allowed people to reset the things in point 1 to what they liked from Gnome 1&2.
It's one thing for a GUI maker to move the task bar from side to top/bottom for instance, but another to also not allow you to have it back where you "need" it to be. Even when you do want to move defaults (like tmux changing hotkey from screens ctrl-a to ctrl-b) it still is a good idea to allow people to set it back, even if only for a transitional period. Muscle memory takes a while to change for some, and GUIs are not except from that, so if you always had the trashcan to the right, moving it to the left will piss someone off, but not as much as preventing that someone from moving it back again, if that is their preference, perhaps even a preference that your previous versions of the GUIs made for them.
- Super impressive
- I seem to recall Carmack looking back at the code of Doom and going something like "if I knew then what I know now then it would be lots faster", meaning that certain algorithms were poorly chosen at the time, and that today we know of lots of tricks and improved ways to render the same thing with less work, so perhaps there are lots of people now that could improve it.
Not saying this isn't a great feat, just that things like compression also advanced in the last 30 years in both speed and efficiency, so it stands to reason that 3d engines (especially the early ones) would have certain spots you could improve upon a lot.
- On C64, all neat stuff is cheats. =)
- Yeah, I thought it ended with trying to optimize bresenham and just leave it at that.
in my head. I had a mental lapse thinking it might have sata support which is a fever dream of epic fail.
I think fujinet is still a work in progress.
Regardless. This is going to make so many happy. I hold out for rm800xl but that appears to be a true science fiction fantasy