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?
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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.
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.
Nobody’s trying to preserve computer memory anymore, we don’t need to it’s cheap and plentiful
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.
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.
Nobody’s trying to preserve computer memory anymore, we don’t need to it’s cheap and plentiful
Nobody’s trying to preserve computer memory anymore, we don’t need to it’s cheap and plentiful
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