You’re right about the FOGA thing. It is _cool_, and it also means that you’re not constantly worrying about eg security updates. I wonder what the real tradeoffs for using it are.
Also — I never noticed/appreciated the buffer before. But now that you point it out it seems so obvious!
yeah those pre 2000 game devs were so adept at using literally every affordance of the hardware because you had to! so getting 1 more vertical pixel—big deal!
Good post. I appreciated the attention to detail.
You’re right about the FOGA thing. It is _cool_, and it also means that you’re not constantly worrying about eg security updates. I wonder what the real tradeoffs for using it are.
Also — I never noticed/appreciated the buffer before. But now that you point it out it seems so obvious!
yeah those pre 2000 game devs were so adept at using literally every affordance of the hardware because you had to! so getting 1 more vertical pixel—big deal!