Re:“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own ...
by dalke on Saturday December 13, 2014 @09:52PM
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It sounds quite reasonable to me. I did morally similar things on an 8088 machine, 10 years previous. Eg, no ray-tracing, but I did an animated movie. No operating system, but I wrote my own BASIC in BASIC. Everything described is well within the skills of a hobbyist.
While I played a bunch of games on it, they weren't games to play to death. Once I finished the levels of Loderunner, for example, it looped back to level 1, and I stopped playing it. The game instead was to figure out neat thing to do, then do it.
The comments on the reddit link are often uninformed, both the negative ones (few hobbyists of the era used source control) and the positive (the projects did not make real use of the hardware, and show no special 'knack' - I certainly am from that era but have no knack for the demoscene).
While I played a bunch of games on it, they weren't games to play to death. Once I finished the levels of Loderunner, for example, it looped back to level 1, and I stopped playing it. The game instead was to figure out neat thing to do, then do it.
The comments on the reddit link are often uninformed, both the negative ones (few hobbyists of the era used source control) and the positive (the projects did not make real use of the hardware, and show no special 'knack' - I certainly am from that era but have no knack for the demoscene).