When I look back on what 8-bit programmers on the NES were able to achieve, I'm astonished.

· Bits and Bobs 7/6/26
  • When I look back on what 8-bit programmers on the NES were able to achieve, I'm astonished.
    • The constraints required them to be absurdly clever.
    • It's amazing they accomplished anything at all!
    • But then I look back on how we wrote code only a year ago.
    • We were programming by rubbing two sticks together.
    • The constraints required us to be absurdly clever.
    • It's amazing we accomplished anything at all!