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How hard could it be? (lemmy.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 86 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Roller coaster Tycoon is one of a lifetime game.

Now everything is electron or react shit. Gone are the times of downloading fully featured software under 10mb.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fun quote from an interview with Chris Sawyer:

Latterly the machine code came back to haunt us when the decision was made to re-launch the original game on mobile platforms as RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic a few years ago, and it took several years and a small team of programmers to re-write the entire game in C++. It actually took a lot longer to re-write the game in C++ than it took me to write the original machine code version 20 years earlier.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Further proof C++ is a pita

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But the modern OpenRCT, written in an actual language, is better in every way.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Probably not as optimized though.

RCT could run on a toaster from the 90's (ok, maybe early 2000's) and looked amazing for the time.

OpenRCT can run on a toaster from the 2010's and looks great because of the timeless art style of the original.

It's still an incredible feat, though!

[–] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

You are very unlikely to write assembly that is more optimized than what a modern compiler could produce for anything longer than a trivial program. I don't know if it made sense at the time of the original RCT, but OpenRCT would definitely not benefit from being written in assembly.