– “bits” as in 8-bit, 16-bit art and gaming systems
In: Technology
In reference to gaming systems, it’s talking about the generation of gaming systems. The systems with 8-bit CPUs didn’t have much *memory*, so they had memory-saving tricks like making the game-world out of repeating tiles, not putting many colours on the screen at once, and so on. They could’ve made 8-bit systems with lots of memory, but when memory got cheaper, there were 16-bit CPUs and they upgraded the CPUs as well. That’s why 8-bit systems are ones without much memory.
Latest Answers