I’ve been looking at emulation for the first time in a long time, and it also blows my mind that entire big detailed games that we played for many hours take 100-400kb total (NES) or 2-4mb (Genesis).

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masfuerte 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My first computer had 32KB. Reading the headline there's still a part of my brain that went "69KB? Luxury!".

	▲	zimpenfish 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> My first computer had 32KB. 1KB for me[0]. Then another 1KB[1] expanded to 16KB via my father's electronic wizardry. Then an official 16KB[2] and ever upwards from there. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

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hybrid_study 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Still amazed how much fun it is to play a 36KB Stargate Defender!

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lnsru 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Welcome to the world of embedded systems. They often do not have more resources that that. Even as completely new development (of pool control system or electricity meter).