I’ve seen the meme/info-graphic that the original file for Mario Bros. was approx. 32kb, but a picture file would be 10x more.
I’ve googled it and looked, but it seems to have some nebulous answers. Could someone please ELI5?
In: 26
when you have limited resources, you optimize (sometimes like crazy). this is quite similar to what demoscene in 80/90′ was doing – squeeze as much from the hardware (not shying away from dirty tricks/hacks) as possible. you still have competitions for 4kB demo, 64kB demo – which by today’s standards are tiny as well.
Latest Answers