• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    Back then Amiga computers were at their peak, it wasn’t uncommon for a whole game to be on a single 1.44 MB floppy. It was also pretty common that booting from the disk was the only way to launch the game.

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      11 months ago

      I guess it’s good that devs don’t need to optimize as much as they had to, but I also feel like we’ve collectively allowed the laziness to go too far, with 110gb updates and stuff.

      I personally would prefer spending my time building new stuff, but I think if I had to, optimizing can also be fun and interesting in its own way.