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Re:Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987 by switchbak on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:30PM (#40743615)
TP was just so awesome, it was like a superpower compared to others waiting 10-20x as long for each build.

For me the big thing was all the latencies stacked together. Slow hard drives, slow floppies, god help you if you swapped, etc. The era was mostly waiting around for the beige machine to finally do its thing.

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Re:Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987 by toast0 on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:02PM (#40743918)
Thank goodness for modernity. Now we wait for white, black, or unpainted aluminum machines to finally do their thing. Sometimes, we never even get to see the machines. :(
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Re:Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987 by M95D on Friday June 21, 2024 @04:53AM (#40747551)
No modernity for me, thank you! Now every time I add a component to my PC, it's a different color than the rest. It looks like a zebra, I swear.

Back then it was just "new" beige and "yellow-ish old worn" beige.

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Re:Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987 by tashbarg on Saturday June 22, 2024 @10:11AM (#40759273)
Zebras come in colors? Ours are all kinda monochrome.
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