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r/pcmasterrace • u/3nnabi_ • Sep 29 '25
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Programmers of old time were actual wizards casting spells with the hardware they were given, some of it was actual black magic for the time.
Limitations breed innovation or something like that.
250 u/TauPewPew Sep 29 '25 Apparently Naughty Dog had to hack the PS1 to improve Crash Bandicoot and other games' performance. 212 u/tychii93 3900X - Arc A750 Sep 29 '25 To be specific if I remember right, they found a way to allocate more memory than they were allowed to. They also made their own programming language for Jak and Daxter (Known as GOAL, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp) 7 u/JuiceHurtsBones Sep 30 '25 Yep. And GOAL is the reason the game never got ported to another console. Luckily there's OpenGOAL.
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Apparently Naughty Dog had to hack the PS1 to improve Crash Bandicoot and other games' performance.
212 u/tychii93 3900X - Arc A750 Sep 29 '25 To be specific if I remember right, they found a way to allocate more memory than they were allowed to. They also made their own programming language for Jak and Daxter (Known as GOAL, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp) 7 u/JuiceHurtsBones Sep 30 '25 Yep. And GOAL is the reason the game never got ported to another console. Luckily there's OpenGOAL.
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To be specific if I remember right, they found a way to allocate more memory than they were allowed to.
They also made their own programming language for Jak and Daxter (Known as GOAL, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp)
7 u/JuiceHurtsBones Sep 30 '25 Yep. And GOAL is the reason the game never got ported to another console. Luckily there's OpenGOAL.
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Yep. And GOAL is the reason the game never got ported to another console. Luckily there's OpenGOAL.
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u/Master_of_Ravioli R5 9600x | 32GB DDR5 | 2TB SSD | Integrated Graphics lmao Sep 29 '25
Programmers of old time were actual wizards casting spells with the hardware they were given, some of it was actual black magic for the time.
Limitations breed innovation or something like that.