the fact that people are *still* wringing more - and discovering more! - from platforms that are over 40 years old, and were painfully inflexible even then, stands as a permanent reproach to the modern industry, which can't get a machine literally a million times faster to keep up with human typing
the thing is, it's not just the C64. even in the five years of its viable life, games for the original Playstation improved immeasurably as people happened upon tricks and techniques that made the previously impossible suddenly not just possible, but the only way to do things themceforth. that's just what happens when you let people explore a fixed, but fully documented, hardware configuration for long enough, it turns out... and it's what the mainstream computer world has lost completely.
i mean, i'm typing this on an HP T630, which by all standards should be an absolute worldbeater. a 2GHz CPU that can perform 4 ALU ops per cycle; 8GB of RAM; a GPU that's basically a 384-core vector processor; half a terabyte of non-volatile storage...
yet it's regarded as slow. (granted, AMD's TDP-based throttling doesn't help... but still.)
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