I also attempted to program the entire AD&D rules as an Amiga Basic program. It ran well for a start, but then I noticed that the random generator always returned the same dice rolls.
Turned out that the RAM was used up, so it couldn’t store the random value anywhere. The program was fine otherwise. Just out of ram.
Anyway, I miss the ingenuity of having too little space, more than I am impressed with the possibilities of having too much.
People simply did more with less. I want that to return.
The bloat is obscene, and hopefully AI is going to break the balloon of it. Nobody really needs several gigabytes of code to run a 2 line program.
I don’t think it would be possible if the machine is running on it, since it would be constantly trying to write logs, and errors would arise when that write operation failed.
Machines also run slower if you’ve used almost all of your disc space, as OSes does RAM data swaps, for data it can’t/won’t hold in memory. Go down to 10 GB of space and your machine is bloody slow
Has anyone ever used the last byte on any hard disc in a successful manner?
I mean not by just putting a too large file there, but something that actually utilized that final byte and having the machine still run flawlessly?
I mean, it doesn’t? The last few GB get slow.
Be the change you want to see, and report back 😅
I already did it on floppies.
I also attempted to program the entire AD&D rules as an Amiga Basic program. It ran well for a start, but then I noticed that the random generator always returned the same dice rolls. Turned out that the RAM was used up, so it couldn’t store the random value anywhere. The program was fine otherwise. Just out of ram.
Anyway, I miss the ingenuity of having too little space, more than I am impressed with the possibilities of having too much.
People simply did more with less. I want that to return. The bloat is obscene, and hopefully AI is going to break the balloon of it. Nobody really needs several gigabytes of code to run a 2 line program.
I don’t think it would be possible if the machine is running on it, since it would be constantly trying to write logs, and errors would arise when that write operation failed.
Machines also run slower if you’ve used almost all of your disc space, as OSes does RAM data swaps, for data it can’t/won’t hold in memory. Go down to 10 GB of space and your machine is bloody slow