@metin A slightly off-topic but similar anecdote: A Raspberry Pi is about 4.5 times faster than a Cray 1 supercomputer, the fastest computer in the 1970s. It cost about 7 million USD in 1978, which is the equivalent of over 30 million Euros today!
Fun fact: The @Uni_Stuttgart had one of the few back then and still has it on display at the HLRS (one of the best high performance computing centres in Europe).
@metin@Uni_Stuttgart Even though this was before my time, it's still awe-inspiring to stand in front of one of these and see all the thousands of hand-knitted cables inside. They are like the great-grandfathers of modern gaming PCs, with windows to show all the neat components 😁
@daniel The Cray computers were definitely an impressive tech landmark.
In the mid-1990s I worked for a Dutch media company, where Team Hoi's coder and me formed a semi-independent game dev division, developing our game Moon Child (we hired Ramon as a freelancer).
The media company had a Silicon Graphics Onyx, which was a very powerful system at the time. It was so large that if there was an issue, a small Asian man from SG came to fix it, fitting into the Onyx and disappearing in it. 😁😁
@daniel Ramon found a business partner who was into the advertising world, and they're still working together. These days, Ramon also films and edits documentaries. He lives just around the corner of my home, and we still go out for a drink every now and then, together with Reinier, our coder. 👍
@metin That's so nice to hear! There is no guarantee that friendships will last that long. It is so easy to lose touch as lives move in different directions.
I just read in your Mastodon bio that we've got a pretty similar computer past. I also had an Atari 2600 and a C128. No Amiga 500 though, but pretty much all other Amiga models. 🙂
@metin Oh nice, so you actually started with the original Amiga. Well at least I had the exact same monitor and printer with my A500, which I bought in 1988, IIRC -- kinda late to the party, I know, but my C128 served me very well up until then (and even beyond).
I bought my A4000-40 around 1993, but unfortunately had to sell it not much later in order to buy a PC, which was better suited for the tasks I had while studying at university. Luckily I kept my trusty A500 for the fun stuff..
@metin I see in your bio that you're a 16-bit game dev/demo scene guy, which is cool. Never really got my head around 68000 assembly programming until a year or 5 ago. It's still pretty hard to do, but the code is much more beautiful than before -- if that makes any sense.. 🤓
@GuyLateur I totally understand what you mean. I was mainly a designer and graphic artist for Amiga games and demos, so my coding skills are underdeveloped. I dabbled a little in Amiga Assembly back in the days, but nothing exciting. Some Copper color bars, that kind of stuff.
Add comment