– How is it that the first Mario Bros. game was about 32kb, but a JPEG of the game is over 300kbs in 2023? 523 viewsJanuary 1, 2024 Question90.75K March 18, 2023 0 Comments 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 57 Answers ActiveNewestOldest Anonymous Posted March 19, 2023 0 Comments I programmed a flight simulator (real, not a game) for the am RAF jet fighter. It had a 64k memory. Bits were valuable and reused. A byte that was wind speed at the beginning of a subroutine was reused at the end of a subroutine. A byte would be split into 3 different values. You are viewing 1 out of 57 answers, click here to view all answers. Register or Login
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