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Re:FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons by bigstrat2003 on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:17PM (#44945447)
AAA games are, largely, quite bad in quality these days. Unfortunately, the desire to make a quality product (from the people who actually make the games) is overruled by the desire to maximize profit (from the people who pay their salaries). Indie games are still great, but I barely even bother to glance at AAA stuff any more.
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Re:FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons by godelski on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:26PM (#44945518) 

  > by the desire to
An appropriate choice of words.

I'm just wondering if/when anyone will realize that often desire gets in the way of achieving. ̶T̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶p̶e̶n̶n̶y̶ ̶w̶i̶s̶e̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶o̶l̶i̶s̶h̶.̶ Chasing pennies with dollars

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Re:FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons by pjmlp on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:57AM (#44948657)
That has been like that since there have been publishers in the games industry.

Back then, the indies stuff was only if you happened to live nearby someone you knew doing bedroom coding, distributing tapes on school, or they got lucky land their game on one of those shareware tapes collection.

Trying to actually get a publisher deal was really painful, and if you did, they really wanted their money back in sales.

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Re:FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons by versteegen on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:52AM (#44949279)
Shareware tapes collection? Was there really such a thing? If so I would imagine it would be one or two demos per tape?
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Re:FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons by pjmlp on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:04AM (#44949372)
Yes there was such a thing, for those of us that leaved throught the 1980's.

There are tons of games that you can fit into 60m, 90m, or 180m tapes, when 48 KB/128 KB is all you got.

More like 20 or something.

Magazines like Your Sinclair and Crash would have such cassete tapes,

https://archive.org/details/YourSinclair37Jan89/YourSinclair...

https://www.crashonline.org.uk/

They would be glued into the magazine with adhesive tape, and later on to avoid them being stolen, the whole magazine plus tape would be in a plastic.

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