Re:Break down of a C64 demo effect
by panic on Friday June 22, 2018 @10:55PM
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The great thing about the C64 is that it never changes. It's the same hardware as it was last year, and it'll be the same hardware next year. Modern systems have plenty of unreasonable constraints, but the foundations are always shifting. How many cool web hacks from 5 or 10 years ago will run unmodified on a modern web browser?
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Re:Break down of a C64 demo effect
by fractallyte on Saturday June 23, 2018 @12:50AM
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The various board revisions introduced some changes. Particularly notable were the bug fixes to the original 326298 board. We could never get certain games/demos to work on our early C64. I still look wistfully at Gauntlet...
You just described why game developers prefer to target consoles.
Yeah, i just pulled up a list of RPi variants to check and it has been releasing new generation Bs every 2 years or so.
In those years it has gone from a 700mhz single core ARM11, to a 1.4ghz quad core Cortex A53.
The c64 in contrast stayed largely fixed for over 2 decades!