Lisp-Powered Laptop with a Battery Life Measured in Years

Re:Lisp-Powered Laptop with a Battery Life Measured in Years by kragen on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @09:18PM (#35077607)

Apparently the original Doom required 4 MiB of RAM https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a4yi5t/original_doo... but I'm pretty sure there have been ports to platforms that had less.

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Re:Lisp-Powered Laptop with a Battery Life Measured in Years by moring on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:42AM (#35078831)

Most of that is static data, so if stored unpacked, a larger flash should be sufficient to make the game need very little RAM. Unfortunately, if I read it correctly, this one only has 1MB of flash. (oh: but SD card. That could work!)

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Re:Lisp-Powered Laptop with a Battery Life Measured in Years by kragen on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:57PM (#35213028)

thanks! these are good points!

however, if you have the sd card powered on all the time it will cut your battery life by about a factor of 30

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Re:Lisp-Powered Laptop with a Battery Life Measured in Years by goosedragons on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:31AM (#35082207)

Yeah, most of the 90s home console ports were to systems that had less than 4MB RAM. Jaguar, 3DO, PlayStation, SNES, 32X. The GBA also has less than 512KB RAM and a 16MHz ARM and had Doom and Doom II ports. Some cutbacks might be necessary but probably doable.

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Re:Lisp-Powered Laptop with a Battery Life Measured in Years by kragen on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:13AM (#35082848)

Also none of those systems had Flash, and they were all a lot slower, requiring more time/space tradeoffs.

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