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hakunintoday at 5:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

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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masfuertetoday at 5:20 PM

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

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hybrid_studytoday at 5:13 PM

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

lnsrutoday at 5:37 PM

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).