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2600, DOS, and yes, game programming

Taulin · 2002-02-15T00:54:25

I too was sad to see the moderator close the DOS threads. I feel choosing a platform (and OS) is an important step in the software lifecycle. I think the arguments and naration that 2600 has given about DOS being good for games (keeping the mod happy) is quite funny really. Sure, I have never used a scope on a chip and all of that because I never really cared. However, I was there before doing all of the ''DOS stuff'' back in the days of Yor also. I may have missed his point, but 2600 seems to be one of those people who think if you have not actually toiled the soil with your hands, you have no right to use that new spiffy tractor. Yep, I know assembly (some companies here in Japan still like to use it still), did 13h, and know how to ride the old hardware pretty good. Times have changed now, and the hardware must be ridden a little differently to get the same performance. Just because someone starting today has DirectX and does not have to worry about the ''gory details'' anymore does not make them any less of a programmer or designer. Personally, I am envyous they don''t have to waste their time programming to just to be able to handle something like the memory layout differences of VGA and SVGA. There is still A LOT to be learned in DirectX terms alone. Just look at all of these threads from people comparing and finding techniques! Re-use is a Good thing, really.

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Started by Taulin February 04, 2002 07:44 PM

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February 15, 2002 12:54 AM

Sheesh, when did I say that you said that OOP didn''t have its merits? I said: "OOP has its merits".

When you''re bashing big libraries and bloated code, it''s not easy to tell if you didn''t know what the mertis of OOP was anyway.

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