• mtchristo@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    Roller coaster Tycoon is one of a lifetime game.

    Now everything is electron or react shit. Gone are the times of downloading fully featured software under 10mb.

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        10 hours ago

        Probably not as optimized though.

        RCT could run on a toaster from the 90’s (ok, maybe early 2000’s) and looked amazing for the time.

        OpenRCT can run on a toaster from the 2010’s and looks great because of the timeless art style of the original.

        It’s still an incredible feat, though!

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          1 hour ago

          You are very unlikely to write assembly that is more optimized than what a modern compiler could produce for anything longer than a trivial program. I don’t know if it made sense at the time of the original RCT, but OpenRCT would definitely not benefit from being written in assembly.