Graphics Tricks from Boomers

I really do miss this old regime of utilizing the entire machine in games. There is a fantastic video of one of the original Naughty Dog developers talking about the optimizations they did for the original Crash Bandicoot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=izxXGuVL21o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=izxXGuVL21o</a>), and some of the less conventional tricks they did to enable 3D gameplay on the PS1. I&#x27;ve always wondered what the true limit of performance optimizations is in games. Obviously modern systems have a lot more systems to compete and share memory between, but there have been obvious cases where performance has had low priority. Also under consideration is the constantly morphing landscape of PC hardware and software architecture. Given a fixed hardware, like the PS5 or Xbox, with the hardware of a high end gaming computer, what is the true limit a game could reach.

I miss 68k assembler. Doing Amiga demos or Polytechnic work on a ST.<p>I ended up doing Mac 68k and C after Poly in the early 90s.

Pretty tired of “everything from the 20th century is boomer”.

As someone frustrated with the state of Rust game dev, I wish more people would work on the cutting-edge Rust graphics stack rather than all this retro graphics stuff. I&#x27;m trying to build something hard and the foundations are sand.

I like the boomer throwback of using a poster image that opens a new page to view the videos instead of just embedding the video. Wonder if this was intentional or lack of polish with the blog template