“RAM is expensive we need to go back to 2D games”
Not at all (even if they are great), look at these 3D games running on PS1 with 3MB RAM and 1MB VRAM
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/...
@nprofile1q... The memory rush has been run for too long. Now everyone runs "elegant" languages, paradigms, frameworks, all hiding an explosive complexity for the tiniest things.
When I run a fancy terminal pager from the command line it takes now nearly 15 MiB on disk, several tens in running memory. A similar application in 1990s took a few tens of KiBs. In 1980s a Basic interpreter could run off 1 KiB of RAM. But now we have a spectrum of functions and complexity we deem vital, inevitable.
When I run a fancy terminal pager from the command line it takes now nearly 15 MiB on disk, several tens in running memory. A similar application in 1990s took a few tens of KiBs. In 1980s a Basic interpreter could run off 1 KiB of RAM. But now we have a spectrum of functions and complexity we deem vital, inevitable.