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Re: ATARI is crap!

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In article <8292ce39-ce29-4863-9b6b-cb0369aee1a8@googlegroups.com>,
Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 4:05:39 PM UTC-5, Your Name wrote:
> > 
> > Yep, the good ol' days of programming, when you had a whopping 1K of
> > RAM to play with, so had to program efficiently ... unlike these days
> > of lazy, over-bloated, inefficient code.  :-(
> > 
> > Write the "Hellow World" program on a VIC 20 BASIC and it takes up a
> > few bytes. Write it on a modern computer in something RealBASIC, build
> > the application, and it takes up a megabyte or more, thanks mostly to
> > all the pointlessly included libraries that aren't even needed.
> 
> I agree totally!  Optimize a modern game for speed by 30%, and you will be
> able to do 30% more special effects on a certain computer or the same on a
> 30% slower computer, so optimizing can *still* help.  :)  Just my opinion.

Games are one of the few places that code is still optimised, at least
to some degree and only really for speed ... but you'll notice that
older hardware gets kicked out of the recommended specs pretty quickly
and only the "latest and greatest" hardware is supported.

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Re: ATARI is crap! "Adelbert Affenstaat" <a@ff.e> - 2016-01-29 22:24 +0100
  Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-30 12:36 +1300
    Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 08:08 -0700
      Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 10:02 +1300
        Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 15:26 -0700
          Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 13:39 +1300
            Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 18:06 -0700
              Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 17:49 +1300
              Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 22:17 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 19:38 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 07:35 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 13:24 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 19:45 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 16:31 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2016-02-05 10:49 -0600
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-06 09:57 +1300
  Re: ATARI is crap! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-30 10:56 -0800
    Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 10:06 +1300
      Re: ATARI is crap! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-30 15:26 -0800
        Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 13:37 +1300
        Re: ATARI is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-31 17:49 -0500
          Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 13:29 +1300
            Re: ATARI is crap! NOSPAM.Kurt.Weiske@f1.n770.z1199.fidonet.org (Kurt Weiske) - 2016-02-02 06:58 +1200
              Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-03 09:31 +1300
  Re: ATARI is crap! Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2016-01-31 21:56 +0100

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