[dev_dull]

> They took the limitations of their computers as a challenge, sat down, and made these tiny machines do impressive things.

Poets knew from long ago that using pentameter and constraints fosters creativity. Here we see the same principle applied in computing.

[natashabaker]

This is what I love about the C256 project (https://c256foenix.com/). From an interview with her:

By limiting its resources, future developers will have to be clever to find new ways to create amazing things that early on we thought we could never do. Memory is cheap, so I could easily spend the same amount of money on a single chip that could have given me the chance to fill the memory space with RAM. But instead, I am choosing to use many chips with much lower capacity. It’s more limiting, but that’s the point."

[cmrdporcupine]

If you haven't, order a Rev C board and contribute!

https://c256foenix.com/product/c256-foenix-rev-c-bare-board-...

[np_tedious]

> Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52299/nuns-fret-not-a...

[rswail]

Q: Does the creation of Design admit constraint?

Design depends largely on constraints.

Q: What constraints?

The sum of all constraints. Here is one of the few effective keys to the Design problem: the ability of the Designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible; his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints. Constraints of price, of size, of strength, of balance, of surface, of time, and so forth. Each problem has its own peculiar list.

- Charles Eames

[bencoder]

The craft/art still exists in the demoscene

[m463]

On the other hand, the first time I did 6502 assembly language programming, I was shocked.

It was so hard to do anything.

For instance, it did not have an add instruction.

You had to clear carry, then add with carry.

That said, I can see how having a microprocessor was amazingly awesome to a hardware designer like woz who could think fluidly at the transistor level.