alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure about Ocean, but a lot of companies used the Tatung Einstein, itself a 64KiB machine, as a development platform. I would assume that the software used for building this stuff was able to deal with source files larger than the machine can hold. They might've moved onto the likes of Atari STs, IBM-compatibles, and Amigas by the time Wizball was released though.
Plenty of music was developed in the form of source files.
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flopsamjetsam • yesterday at 9:04 PM
> Plenty of music was developed in the form of source files.
That's fascinating. I came in during the Amiga era, and everything was SoundTracker etc. files. I had no idea that music was hand-coded like this.
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There's always another 80s computer I'd never heard of...
The Tatung Einstein was released in 1984 in the UK, was kind of MSX-like architecturally, and used the same 3" (not 3.5") floppies as the Amstrad CPC.
I'm curious what US-based C64 devs would have used. Probably not this machine?