This article is a garbage rewrite of the original blog[1]. It misses a boatload of detail and even gets some details wrong along the way (Like the fact .NET isn’t actually running on DOS)<p>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@MStrehovsky/building-a-self-contained-game-in-c-under-8-kilobytes-74c3cf60ea04" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@MStrehovsky/building-a-self-contained-ga...</a>
Microsoft really excelled (pun?) in binary compatibility. I can still run 20+ years old games in Win10.<p>That's a shame to see how little control we have over e.g. our phones nowadays, how monolithic they are, SW wise.