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by MrYellowP 1277 days ago
What's wrong with using VSync? 320x200 ran at 70Hz on every machine out there.

You don't need a sound library. You just need to know how to talk to a SoundBlaster. Virtually everything was compatible, so you were good to go. A library is only adding Points Of Failure. Programming a sfx card was way easier compared to nowadays.
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zx8080 1277 days ago
> Programming a sfx card was way easier compared to nowadays.

This. Replace "sfx card" with almost anything except new ones. The list would include: ios/android app, web site, etc. There's a feeling that we keep stacking an unneeded complexity in layers.

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MrYellowP 1265 days ago
> There's a feeling

A feeling? ... Ever since the OOP nonsense started decades ago, adding more and more bureaucracy to programming has been the norm. Nowadays we live in a world where programmers suck, because they've never learned to actually program the computer! Instead they've learned how to use programming languages, aka dealing with all the unnecessary bullshit I call bureaucracy!

Once you start piling Bureaucracy onto something , more and more will get stacked on top of it.

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