11th March 2004, 6:28 PM
I'll say there is ONE advantage to working on such an old system. They know the hardware. They don't have to learn new hardware. That's something I guess. Eventually though, ya gotta move on. Oh sure it would be fun to see exactly how far one could go (perhaps a total GENIUS might get Doom 3 working perfectly on the old Atari :D), but it's good to go onward.
Now ABF, while systems released around the same time tend to be better at some things yet worse at others, when you go 1 or 2 GENERATIONS ahead of that system, that system can do absolutely everything the previous one could, and truly IS in every concievable way the better system. This is why emulation can work so well for old NES games on the GCN. The GCN can easily do absolutely every single last thing the NES could ever EVER ever EVER EVER EVER ever EVER EVER EVER EvEr EVEr eVER EVER eVeR Ever ever do, and that's a fact (oh, except have a decent select button :D).
Now ABF, while systems released around the same time tend to be better at some things yet worse at others, when you go 1 or 2 GENERATIONS ahead of that system, that system can do absolutely everything the previous one could, and truly IS in every concievable way the better system. This is why emulation can work so well for old NES games on the GCN. The GCN can easily do absolutely every single last thing the NES could ever EVER ever EVER EVER EVER ever EVER EVER EVER EvEr EVEr eVER EVER eVeR Ever ever do, and that's a fact (oh, except have a decent select button :D).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)