This also gives me a bit more understanding of how the Video Toaster was possible to architect in a day with such slow CPU clock speeds. It seemed like magic at the time compared to limited capabilities of IBM PC clones. I hadn't realized how much capabilities these other Amiga chips provided.
Razengan•17m ago
I kinda wish each "era" of computing/video games lasted 3-5x longer than it did.. :')
I'd have loved to live through 10 years of the Commodore 64, 10 years of the Amiga, 10 years of the NES, 10 years of the SNES...
uz3snolc3t6fnrq•11m ago
we'd still be on the pentium pro by now. but imagine all the Doom clones we could have!
Razengan•10m ago
I'm fine with that
only if we got more Heretic/Hexenlikes too!
lawlessone•10m ago
Stuff would certainly be very well optimized near the end of each era.
Keyframe•7m ago
Seems we were the lucky generation. In a way we did. As they say, when you're 10, 1 year is 10% of your life and lasts forever. Now, years turned into months. Time _does_ pass slower when you turn off the intertubes though.
kfarr•24m ago
https://youtu.be/OXT5MrDdyB8?si=cZChImbAi3JBbFFl&t=49
This also gives me a bit more understanding of how the Video Toaster was possible to architect in a day with such slow CPU clock speeds. It seemed like magic at the time compared to limited capabilities of IBM PC clones. I hadn't realized how much capabilities these other Amiga chips provided.