Re:I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
by neilpanchal on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:41AM
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Anyone interested in building something like this in physical form? Have access to ME/EE expertise and supply chain that's second to none, contact info in the profile.
Re:I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
by cfcosta on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:20AM
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Adding to your point, even with the artificial limitations of pico-8, massive hits have been born in it, such as Celeste: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2145
Re:I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
by christmm on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:40AM
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Imagine MSAccess Webbased Online, with GUI + Report + Query Designer + Free backend database + scripting and repl.
Re:I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
by tremon on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:11AM
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That's the basic offering of Microsoft's Power Platform, except for the repl part. Scripting is done graphically through Flow, the backend database is CDS, and reporting is through PowerBI.
As a developer, I think the whole thing is so convoluted and asinine it should curl up and die in a fire. It will spawn an entirely new area of bespoke, non-maintainable yet critical business tooling.
Re:I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
by andi999 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:45AM
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Great software at great (big) prices. I mean if minecraft would have been published in the 90s it would prob cost 80$ which is 160$ in todays money (making up numbers here) instead of 10$. It is harder and more expensive to make software in constraint environments.
Why? Original 1994 System Shock was released at $34.99. Internally it was pretty much Minecraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr3_6gb92Kw ;-)
For example, Pico-8 gaming engine: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
and TIC-80 computer: https://tic80.com/
These are way too limited, but I could imagine something a little more powerful - 1024x768 pixel buffer, 64 MB ram and 100 MB space. All apps natively running on this (or even emulation) would instantly load and the latency would be unreal.