![]() |
Posted by Uncle Pete (89 SE) on August 15, 2002 at 16:46:50:
In Reply to: See that's one of the reasons I didn't buy a gaming computer..... posted by Lordrandall on August 15, 2002 at 16:42:23:
Do you ever remember Sim City? Do you know somebody once ported a version to the BBC Model B computer (32k RAM). This means that the entire game was fitted into the same resources that the PC version used to calculate the street lighting sub routines. Fixed hardware means that programmers have to work hard to push the envelope of their games - just look how much they squeezed out of the PS1 or the Commodore Amiga.
...programmers get lazy - this has been the curse of the PC in both gaming and non gaming circles. Programmers don't have the incentive to maximise their code because their games can go faster by throwingmroe hardware at them.