Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : boraxman
From : Adept
Date : Tue Dec 06 2022 15:04:14

 bo> I do prefer the older hardware.  IT seems more interesting, because its
 bo> not as opaque.  The new iPhone doesn't interest me because its so hard
 bo> to get to the underlying hardware.  The original IBM PC? Now that is
 bo> interesting because I can control every aspect of that machine.

Yeah, and some people are working on _very_ impressive things on those older systems. E.g., the 286 demo that Trixter put out at Evoke.

My inclinations tend to lie elsewhere, either with ANSI, or just with doing enough coding to make something interesting, artistically. And using old systems just means that I'd have to spend more time exploring the hardware than thinking about the artistic aspects.

Though I do still have a bit of fascination with embedded systems, but not enough to have coded much of interest with it.

Still, most likely the next bigger Demoscene project I'll end up doing will involve ANSI-style graphics, but in systems where it's absolutely unnecessary to use ANSI-style graphics.

But I'd really just be going toward my strengths. I don't work in the game industry, so there are plenty of coders in the scene who will just always be significantly better than me, due to the amount of experience they have.

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