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Re:Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life... by Zardoz84 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @05:51PM (#42628654)
Well... I recommend you to try an old Amiga 1200 . You will find a big surprise how this 20 Mhz machine it's highly responsive, and boots faster that any current machine with Windows 10/11. However, it would not look fancy to our current eyes.
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Re:Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life... by doormatt on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:28PM (#42629005)
Loading times from floppies wasn't even remotely quick.
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Re:Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life... by lupusreal on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @05:34AM (#42632819)
Launching a game off a floppy was much faster than opening the bloatware that is steam and then downloading gigabytes of bloat.
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Re:Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life... by oniony on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:51AM (#42643973)
That's why, back in the day, we bought hard drives. I still fondly remember my first 52MB hard drive, which consisted of a huge plastic enclosure the shape of the Amiga that attached to the expansion port off the side.

I had this one: https://www.jaruzel.com/blog/amiga-500--fun-with-storage. The official Commodore one was much uglier and, from memory, only 20MB.

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Re:Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life... by draven on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:59AM (#42631435)
> 20 Mhz machine

14 MHz !

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